for Parshat Ki Tisa
i
Moses takes too long
coming down from the mountain
up with God.
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The people feel helpless
and they say to Aaron:
You
make a new god for us.
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Aaron molds a calf from gold
and the people dance before it,
saying:
This is the god
who has taken us from Egypt.
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When God forgives the people at last,
He tells Moses:
three times a year
the people must come to Me,
to My Temple.
ii
If Moses was the way to God
and Moses is lost,
what can the people do?
So they make a new god
to be close to them.
iii
But God says:
You have misunderstood.
Everyone can come to Me.
Everyone must come to Me.
My Temple doors
are open wide.
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Shabbat Shalom,
Abe
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