Golden calf the words that were traditionally ascribed to Jeroboam and placed them in the mouths of the people." Friedman believes that the story was turned into a polemic, exaggerating the throne platform decoration into idolatry, by a family of priests sidelined by Jeroboam. The declarations of Aaron and Jeroboam are almost identical: After making the golden calf or golden calves both Aaron and Jeroboam celebrate festivals. Aaron builds an altar and Jeroboam ascends an altar (Exod 32:5–6; 1 Kings 12:32–33). In "Legends of the Jews", the Conservative rabbi and scholar Louis Ginzberg wrote that the worship of the golden calf was
Law given to Moses at Sinai and gravity of Biblical law as if they are written explicitly in the Torah. A classic example are the laws of Tefillin, small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah. The corresponding halakhot, as expounded by the Oral Law, are mentioned four times in the Torah (, , , ). Law given to Moses at Sinai A Law given to Moses at Sinai (Hebrew "Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai" הלכה למשה מסיני) refers to a halakhic law that is neither explicitly stated in the biblical laws nor derived from it by Talmudical hermeneutics but known from