A gracious, bountiful, proud woman, the wife of a rabbi, after disillusionment with her husband and an attempt at seduction by another man developed attacks of severe anxiety on top of a mountain. In analysis it was possible to trace her adult identity as the integration of an adolescent identification with the prophet Moses. The genesis of this superego identification is traced through the vicissitude of her childhood experiences, previous identifications, and the social and religious climate in which she was reared.