We just read (in Parshat Ki Tisa) that the Levites punished the 3,000 men who took part in the golden calf episode. But 3,000 is only 1/2 of 1% of the 600,000 Israelite men who left Egypt. Why is the golden calf episode so important to our tradition if it involved such a tiny proportion of the people? Is there commentary on this?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Sulfur reacts with sodium hydroxide in the following way: $\ce{3S + 6NaOH->2Na_2S + Na_2SO_3 + 3H_2O}$ It is a disproportionation reactio...
-
When do we use たくさん and when do we use 多い? I found both modifiers are used within similar sentences, for example: 人が多かったです 人がたくさんいました I had ...
-
I have never before heard/read about something as a $sp^5$ hybridization. Today, Henry Rzepa's blog post made me aware of the existance...
-
As you know the Morlet wavelet function is given by: $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{\pi f_b}}e^{\frac{-t^2}{f_b}}e^{j2\pi f_c}$$ The Fourier transform of...
No comments:
Post a Comment