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Chukas - The Golden Calf Was A Panic Attack, Now Mom Has To Clean Up The Mess

Why do Chazal connect the Parah Adumah, which purifies from tumas meis, to the sin of the Golden Calf?

In this shiur, delivered in "Steve's", Rav Burg explore the Cheit HaEigel not simply as primitive idolatry, but as a deep human collapse in the face of absence, uncertainty, and death. When Moshe Rabbeinu disappeared, Klal Yisrael cried, “We do not know what happened to him.” Chazal tell us that the Satan showed them an image of Moshe’s death. The Eigel was born from that terror: the desperate need to replace invisible relationship with something visible, tangible, controllable — and even…

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