Living with the Divine Spirit
Mar 10, 2012 By Abigail Treu | Commentary | Ki Tissa
How to blame the Israelites for the Golden Calf episode, when it seems that all they want to do is create something holy?
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Arts and Crafts: Commentary on Parashat Ki Tissa
Feb 11, 2014 By Alan Cooper | Commentary | Ki Tissa
There are aspects of the Bible鈥檚 account of the construction of the Tabernacle in the wilderness that seem incredible; so much so that early critical commentators tended to reject its historical accuracy out of hand.
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Shattered Tablets
Mar 6, 2015 By Daniel Heschel Silberbusch | Commentary | Ki Tissa
What fascinates me about this moment in the Torah (Ex. 32:15-19) is what we forget because we too well remember how the story ends.
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When God Said 鈥淣o鈥� to Moses
Feb 26, 2013 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Ki Tissa
It must have been a great comfort to Moses鈥攁nd not only a disappointment鈥攖hat God turned down his request to see God鈥檚 glory. The wind was presence enough, on top of the mountain, much of the time鈥攖he wind, and the voice in the wind. Every visit of divine speech exhausted him now. Even the words that did not demand that he do battle, climb higher, challenge Pharaoh, rebuke the Israelites yet again, or simply鈥攐n some days the hardest鈥攅ndure.
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