Do Jews worship cows

Answer 1

Jews do not worship cows; Jews only worship God.

Hindus (a completely different religion) venerates cows and considers them holy, but they do not worship cows either; they worship the numerous gods of Hinduism.

Answer 2

Jews don't worship pigs They have one single god. the same one that the Christians worship. As a mater of fact pigs along with some other animals are viewed as unclean and are not allowed to be eaten if you are Jewish.

Answer 3

A:In Exodus 32, Moses reacted with uncharacteristic fury after his brother, Aaron, made a golden calf for the people to worship. The initial reaction to this passage would be that the author was describing animal worship by the ancient Hebrews. This falls over when we realise that The Bible tells us that the Israelites had remained faithful to their God during 400 years in Egypt and the hardships of slavery, and that they had ample recent evidence that God was with them. We must now look for a more realistic if less obvious explanation for the golden calf.

First we must place the story of the Exodus in its true context, and with it the story of the golden calf . Scholars tell us that the Book of Exodus was written during the first millennium BCE, centuries after the time attributed to Moses. Furthermore, over 90 per cent of scholars are reported to believe there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible. The tradition of the golden calf tells us something about the Hebrew people during the monarchic period when the tradition took shape.

Semitic peoples, including the Hebrews, revered the bull as a symbol of fertility. El (biblical: Elohim), the father of the gods, was often depicted as a bull. Probably more relevantly to the depiction of the golden calf in the Exodus story, the moon god was often depicted as a bull with crescent horns or as a calf. C. L. Woolley found several of the images in his excavations of the royal graves at Ur in Mesopotamia, with the following passage as part of a hymn to the moon god Sin: "Ferocious bull, whose horn is thick, whose legs are perfected, who is bearded in lapsis, and filled with luxury and abundance."

Throughout the Books of Kings, Psalms and other sources, we see evidence of the Israelites and their Judahite cousins worshipping the sun and moon gods, and of building calf images. 1 Kings 12:26-30 describes Jereboam as setting up golden calves for worship in Bethel and Dan. This story need not be historically accurate to provide evidence of calf worship in Israel. There is evidence in the Exodus story that could link Moses and Joshua to an earlier tradition of the sun god. When Moses and Joshua, representing the sun god, left the Israelites and went up the mountain, the people chose to worship his rival, the moon god. This could be understood in the context of early Israelite polytheism, where the sun and moon gods were seen as rivals who each sought worship when the other was absent (night and day).

Jewish answer:

The Golden Calf (Exodus ch.32) was not an ongoing thing in the time of Moses; it was one occurrence which was quickly and decisively stamped out. And while it was a serious offense, it may be a bit less of a puzzle if we consider the following:

1) It seemed that Moses had died (Rashi commentary, Exodus 32:1); and they wanted something or someone to lead them. They felt that this (seemingly) drastic circumstance justified quickly taking unusual measures.

2) They had a tradition that they would eventually build an edifice to God (Rashi, Exodus 26:15); and, not yet having been commanded as to the details, they thought that they might now improvise.

3) The actual intent was not so much to worship the Golden Calf itself, but to worship the Presence of God (Exodus 32:5) which (they hoped) would dwell upon it.

4) The entire event was instigated by Egyptians (Rashi, Exodus 32:4) who had recently joined the mixed multitude (Exodus 12:38).

5) Those who sinned were, at most, in the thousands (Exodus 32:28). Not hundreds of thousands.

6) That generation was judged by an exacting standard, precisely because they were on a high level (- Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi).

7) In each era, there are different spiritual tests. The (main) test in ancient times was whether people would succumb to the lure of idolatry and its preludes. This powerful lure has since been emasculated (Talmud, Yoma 69b), so it is hard for us now to fully comprehend.

Answer 4

They never did and don't. You're confusing them with the Hindus, which are said to hold the cow as a sacred animal...but not as one to worship.

Answer 5

No, no animals are considered holy in Judaism.

Answer 6

The question is odd. Jews do not and never did worship pigs. Jews worship only God, and hold that God has no physical form. Jews consider the worship of any physical embodiment of God to be idolatry, whether the worshiper believes that God is embodied in a tree, a statue, or living flesh.

Answer 7

The answer is ridiculous. Pigs are animals and are dirty,now Cows are worshipped,or every animal is dirty. I wonder what breed men are..No one can answer this take a look at yourself