Moishe3rd
Yehudi
IMHO - neither.
The sin of the Golden Calf was something that affected the Jewish People; the nation of Israel. It had many consequences, some that are with us today.
However, each Jewish individual is not "bound" into sin by the Chet Haegel; the sin of the Golden Calf.
The idea that we are born sinful and therefore need a "messiah" to "cleanse" our sins for us, is not a Jewish concept.
We are born pure and, it is up to us, in our struggle through Life, to maintain or return to that state of purity, as difficult as it may be.
G-d does reward and punish the Jewish Nation as a whole depending upon what the Jewish Nation as a whole actually does with their pure souls...
The sin of the Golden Calf was something that affected the Jewish People; the nation of Israel. It had many consequences, some that are with us today.
However, each Jewish individual is not "bound" into sin by the Chet Haegel; the sin of the Golden Calf.
The idea that we are born sinful and therefore need a "messiah" to "cleanse" our sins for us, is not a Jewish concept.
We are born pure and, it is up to us, in our struggle through Life, to maintain or return to that state of purity, as difficult as it may be.
G-d does reward and punish the Jewish Nation as a whole depending upon what the Jewish Nation as a whole actually does with their pure souls...