[Avodah] Egel Zahav

[Saul Guberman]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:37, <cantorwolberg at cox.net> wrote:
> If the people believed Moshe was dead and therefore they needed another
> leader, why didn't they ask Aharon to be their leader instead of the egel?
> OR, why wouldn't Aharon OFFER to lead them...

Take a look at the text.  http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0232.htm#4
They asked for a "God" to lead them.  Which begs the question of why an
egel is what was the result of this.

Rav Etzshalom has an interesting insight in this weeks shnayim Mikra.

http://www.ou.org/torah/article/Ki_Tisa_-_Sheini

Saul