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Parasha Ki Tisa: Two Cows

Weekly Sidra: Ki Tisa (when you lift up) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 30:1-34:35 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 18:1-39 Parashat Ki Tissa – Shemot / Exodus 30:11-34:35 (כי תשא — Hebrew for "when you take). We have arrived to the most famous infamous part of the entire Torah: the sin of the egel hazahav – golden calf. This parasha however is a diamond in the rough and a gold mine for Dvar Torah topics. But we will focus in the problem of idolatry. So let`s dive into the Torah portion of the week. When the people saw that Moshe was late in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron, and they said to him: "Come on! Make us gods that will go before us, because this man Moshe, who brought us up from the land of Egypt we don’t know what has become of him." [Shemot [...]