Parsha Poster #46 – Ekev: Golden gods Then I saw and behold, you had sinned to the Lord your G

Parsha Poster #46 – Ekev: Golden gods Then I saw and behold, you had sinned to the Lord your God, you made yourselves a molten calf, you strayed quickly from the way that God commanded you. I held the two tablets and threw them from my two hands, and I smashed them before your eyes… I prayed to God and said, “My Lord, God, do not destroy Your people and Your heritage that You redeemed in Your greatness, that You took out of Egypt with a strong hand.— Deu. 9:16-17, 26 Buy this poster here.Subscribe to get the parsha in your email weekly. Golden CalfMoses claims that You love only him,that we were spared because he intervened,that You do not like our offering.Moses, who has never seen Your face—not in the silent, steamy eyes of Tzipporah,from whom he stays cloistered,not in the bloody foreskins of his sons,whom he ignores in the name of his holy work.Moses, who doesn’t touch.Moses, who doesn’t dance.Moses, the bridegroom of blood.Guide him please, Holy One of Compassion.We don’t need another Pharaoh to lead us into freedom.Love him doubly, forgive him his wrath.He was taken as an infant from his mother.Only You know what befell the lad in the palace,but below, all we see is his sweltering rage.Otherwise, as You surely can foresee,generations will mistakefervent worship for idolatry.Rabbi Jacob J. Staub is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Spirituality at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and co-author of Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach. He is also a spiritual director and a writer of contemporary midrash,of which this poem, published in Zeek, is an example. He can be reached at www.jacobstaub.net. -- source link

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