Knocking Down the Golden Calves | Parshat Ki Tisa

Knocking Down the Golden Calves | Parshat Ki Tisa

Find the connection of this weeks week Torah Portion KI Tisa found in Exodus 30:11-34:35 to the nations leaving idolatry to enjoin themselves to Israel, Torah and HaShem. Ki Tisa, (כִּי תִשָּׂא — Hebrew for “when you take,” the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parashah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 30:11–34:35. The parashah is the longest of the weekly Torah portions in the book of Exodus (although not the longest in the Torah), and is made up of 7,424 Hebrew letters, 2,002 Hebrew words, and 139 verses, and can occupy about 245 lines in a Torah scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, Sefer Torah).