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Week of: March 1-7

This Week's Torah Potion: Ki Tisa - When You Elevate

Exodus 30:11-34:35

HafTorah:

Ezek 36:1-38; I Kings 18:1-39;

Brit Chadashah:

Luke 11:14-20; Acts 7:35-8:1;

1 Corinthians 10:1-13; 2 Corinthians 3:1-18; 1 Cor 8:4-13

Torah Portion Print out:

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This week's Parshah discusses three major things: the Mishkan, the Golden Calf and the second tablets.

The Mishkan

We've already discussed Yahweh's instructions to build the Mishkan for two full Parshahiot (Torah portions), and we hear a little more about it here.

Every person should give half a shekel towards the building of the Mishkan. These coins will also be used to count the Children of Israel.

A washbasin of copper should be placed at the entrance to the Mishkan, and Aaron and his sons should wash their hands and feet before they perform the services

A recipe of oil with spices is described which Moses is to make and pour on the Mishkan and all its vessels, anointing them and making them holy for use.

Next is described the secret recipe for the ketoret, the sacrifice of incense that was brought on the Golden Altar. Two master craftsmen, Bezalel and Oholiab, are put in charge of the building of the Mishkan. They again receive the commandment to keep the Sabbath.

The Golden Calf

After they heard the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, Moses went up the mountain to receive the Two Tablets from Yahweh/Yeshua. They knew he is supposed to come down after forty days, but they miscalculate, and when he doesn't come down when they expect him to, they get confused as to what has happened to him. They build a golden calf and make it into an idol, serving, worshiping and bringing to it sacrifices.

When Yahweh sees this, he is very angry, and wants to destroy the whole Hebrew nation, telling Moses that he will start a new nation from him. Moses prays for them, begging Yahweh to save them. Moses then takes the Tablets down the mountain. When he nears the camp he sees the Golden Calf, he throws down the Tablets, shattering them, and destroys the Golden Calf. Moses then gathers all the Levites and they kill all those who were involved in the building of the Golden Calf. He had them grind down the golden calf into gold dust...mixed it with water and told them who ever dies they were the guilty ones...and if you were innocent you will live.

Yahweh tells Moses that He will now send an angel to accompany them, but Moses says that they refuse to go unless Yahweh Himself comes along. And so Yahweh agrees that He Himself will accompany them to the Holy Land.

Moses prepares a new set of tablets and goes up again to the mountain so Yahweh can inscribe the Ten Commandments in them.

On the mountain, being that Moses sat with Yeshua for 40 days when came down the mountain his face shines so brightly that he must wear a veil. He takes off the veil only to speak to Yahweh and to teach the Children of Israel the Torah