Why does this Torah narrative of meeting the Hebrew God include its betrayal with worship of a Golden Calf? Why does that God then threaten to destroy all the people just saved from Egyptian slavery, and how does Moses stop him? And is there more than one version of the Ten Commandments? Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (www.iishj.org) and Rabbi of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation (www.kolhadash.com) offers his thoughts.