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R. Elie Kaunfer: The Deeper Meaning of Avinu Malkeinu

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The Golden Calf Sin - I Would Have Dismantled the Jewish People

In Hebrew laminatsa means to be victorious to win to beat someone else. God wanted Moshe to defeat him and in that way God is the opposite of a male of a star for them of a flesh and blood king. And so how can we use the king metaphor at all right Martin? Ellie Confer: I think it gets to the basic problem of language which is to say that we are only limited by the human metaphor is that we can grasp.

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