Hashem loved the Golden Calf. Yeah, you heard that right, He loved it.
- By Rabbi Landau
- Duration: 58 seconds
Concepts: Believing you are forgiven
Rabbi Landau teaches Hashem loved the Golden Calf. Yeah, you heard that right, He loved it.
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Hashem loved the Golden Calf. Yeah, you heard that right, He loved it.
Rabbi Shalom Landau שליט״א explains: The calf wasn’t rebellion, it was panic. Desperation. Moshe was gone, the lifeline was cut, silence felt like death. When you love someone so much, absence feels unbearable. They reached for something, the wrong move, yes, but from raw yearning, not defiance.
The Golden Calf exposed the truth: We can’t live without You. It wasn’t betrayal, it was attachment. Clumsy but real. And then Yom Kippur comes, the second Luchos. Hashem says, now the bond is tested, broken, rebuilt, and now it’s forever. Like a marriage fight, the screaming, the panic, the bad choices, all of it coming from fear of losing the one you love.
That’s Yom Kippur. The fight becomes the fuel for deeper love. The Calf wasn’t proof of betrayal, it was proof of yearning. And Hashem’s answer on Yom Kippur is: “I can’t live without you either.”
🌟 Dedicated in honor of,
Dovid Aryeh son of Reisel Rivkah,
Parnassah,
Shidduchim,
General Hatzlacha
May this new year bring blessing, health, success, and endless connection for him and for all of Klal Yisrael.
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