Lesson 1: Moses and the Golden Calf

• These are words that I have often questioned; jealous and zealous.
• your explanation has clarified my understanding of both of them. Thank you Ann.
• what’s even more important, to me at least, is understanding Moses’s reaction both to G-d as He is “fed up” with the Hebrews and the Hebrews themselves.
• it seems to me that Moses was acting as a surgeon i.e. carrying out a radical excision of the ‘cancer’ that had developed in his absence. He had no other choice if he was to create a nation on to G-d.

I often thought ‘where is Moses’s mercy in forgiving those who instigated the Golden Calf?’ Your explanation has answered that query and given my a better understanding of Moses the man and of the human relationship that exists between G-d and us.
thank you Ann