We will discuss the story of the Sin of the Golden Calf. 

 To what extent is this idol worship - or is it something else? What is the motivation of Israel? We touch on these questions, but focus on a third: what is this story all about?

The description of the tablets inscribed with the Finger of God can offer a clue. What is the

 role of the luchot in story of the Sin of the Golden Calf? Why does Moshe make the people drink the water with the ashes of the Golden Calf? We compare this strange incident with the Sotah ritual, and compare the story of the 

covenant with the story of the anti-covenant.