Ki Tisa || When You Take || כי תשא

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Precept upon precept, line by line reading. Week 21 Torah Portion - Ki Tisa (When You Take) Exodus 30:11-34:35. Translation: את Cepher

(2.27.24)

The people of Israel are told to each contribute exactly half a shekel of silver to the Sanctuary. Instructions are also given regarding the making of the Sanctuary’s water basin, anointing oil and incense. “Wise-hearted” artisans Betzalel and Aholiav are placed in charge of the Sanctuary’s construction, and the people are once again commanded to keep the Shabbat.

When Moses does not return when expected from Mount Sinai, the people make a golden calf and worship it.

Yahuah tests Moses with the proposal to destroy the errant nation, but Moses intercedes on their behalf. Moses descends from the mountain carrying the saphire tablets of the testimony engraved with the Ten Commandments; seeing the people dancing about their idol, he breaks the tablets, destroys the golden calf, grinds it up and makes them drink it, and then has the primary culprits put to death. He then returns to יהוה to say: “If You do not forgive them, blot me out from the book that You have written.” Another anomaly is found in this phrase in Hebrew where Moses asks to be blotted out “from Your book” where the last letter is a Kaf Soffit which has a gematria of 20, and rather than blot Moses his name from The Book of Life, our merciful יהוה simply blot’s Moses name from the 20th Torah Parsha… which was last week’s and the only parashat in Torah in which we do not see Moses his name mentioned!

יהוה forgives, but says that the effect of their sin will be felt for many generations. At first יהוה proposes to send His angel along with them, but Moses insists that יהוה Himself accompany His people to the promised land.

Moses prepares a new set of tablets and once more ascends the mountain, where יהוה reinscribes the covenant on these second tablets. On the mountain, Moses is also granted a vision of the divine thirteen attributes of יהוה character. It is here in Chapter 34 that we see another amazing anomaly in Torah… three enlarged Hebrew letters revealing יהוה desired relationship with us in Covenant language! So radiant is Moses’ face after beholding יהוה character, that he must cover it with a veil, which he removes only to speak with יהוה and to teach His laws to the people… and this is a great Truth for us as well, for if we can truly behold the matchless beauty of the Divine in realizing the depth of His selflessly loving nature, we too can be changed into his likeness and shine the Light of his Love!

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