Parashat Ki Tissa: “The Sin of the Golden Calf and Its' Ramifications”

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The opening of this shiur, in Chacham Baruch Ben-Haim ztl’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

we are going to engage in learning part of the parashat the parashat that's coming up this coming shabbat parashat many things were written in this parasha but i decided that we should learn together let me make up a study regarding the famous sin sin of the jewish people regarding the golden calf the story of the golden calf the sin of the jewish people with the golden calf is a great mystery so many questions nevertheless i will tackle the story through the verses of the torah explaining as literally as possible adding a few more injections from the talmud from rashi because it is a story that needs to be very much learned taught for all the generations no question about it the scene the sin of the golden calf has been the source of many tragedies upon the jewish people besides the terrible tragedy that happened at the time when tragedy that happened at the time when it happened when the jewish people they were still at the feet of the mountain of sinai waiting for moses to come back bringing with him the torah the ten commandments that was the time that they they have committed an atrocity but we have to explain it i mean the atrocity that happened was i mean the atrocity that happened was that they decided to produce a god for themselves why moses promised he will come back after 40 days on the sixth hour of the day and the jewish people made a mistake thinking that he is late he was not late because what he meant was that the days should be calculated according to the hebrew calendar

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1. 0:05we are going to engage in learning part of the parashat the parashat that's coming up…
2. 3:40as we know the land of egypt was the biggest empire of course in the world…
3. 7:16did that after a certain time that's why he said kishi had america your nation has…
4. 10:53that's what happened on the part of the jewish population that was there by the way…
5. 14:29a power that will lead us so we need a kind of god so make one…
6. 18:07he threw everything in the furnace and he made a golden calf and all of them…
7. 21:45so they are the ones who degenerated and they made and they they produced the golden…
8. 25:26when abraham gave his life for you willing to be burned to death for his faith…
9. 29:03it's interesting what is what it says in the talmud that god that moses gave a…
10. 32:39and the conclusion was that three thousand people died on such a day and that's it…

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