[Avodah] RSRH on the Agel and What We See Today

[Yitzchok Levine]

I, and others whom I have spoken with, am disturbed by many things 
that I see going on in the O world today. To me it seems that some 
are "making up a new religion." People ascribe powers to coins, to 
men and to who knows what else. IMO, one can gain insight into what 
the Torah perspective on these things is by reading the first part of 
RSRH's commentary on Shemos 32

1. When the people saw that Moshe did not fulfill their expectation
that he would come down from the mountain, the people gathered
against Aharon, and they said to him: Arise, make us gods who shall
go before us; for this man Moshe, who brought us up from the land of
Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.

For those interested, I have posted his commentary on this Pasuk at

http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/shemos_agel.pdf

Yitzchok Levine 
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