Ki Sisa - Learning to Wait

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

You're listening to the weekly para podcast recorded with Hashem's never- ending assistance in Ramabes Israel 5775 2015. This week's para is para's kisa and the event of this week's para the event that everyone is speaking about and the event that has cataclysmic repercussions for all time is the event of the misael the the sin of the golden calf. And as we read this story, we wonder, we wonder, how could this happen? It's only 40 days since the Jewish people heard God's voice at Mount Si. One and a half million people altogether heard God's voice speak. And God says, and God said, "I am Hashem, your God, who took you out of Egypt, and you shall have no other gods with a lowercase G. There should be no other gods in front of me. I am the only God that there is. So we read this and we wonder how could it be that this happens this sin occurs so quickly after they heard that voice of God. And also it's interesting what is the a what was the sin? What did it center around? How does it begin? The Torah tells us that it begins because they counted 40 days from the time that Moshe Moses had gone up on the mountain and the 40 days had elapsed. They knew that that he said he was going to be there for 40 days. The 40 days had elapsed and it didn't look like Moshe was coming down. This is what the verse says in chapter 32:1. The nations saw that Moshe had not yet come down from

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1. 0:00You're listening to the weekly para podcast recorded with Hashem's never- ending assistance in Ramabes Israel…
2. 2:06you out of Egypt. You can see already here the beginnings of the mistake is that…
3. 4:07lost his state of being. He lost that state of perfection, of being able to live…
4. 6:11Why was he there on Mount Si learning and studying the Torah? Why didn't why did…
5. 8:13days and 40 nights he's arguing with God. Please forgive the Jewish people. I mean if…
6. 10:14separate from God, separate from others, separate even within ourselves. There's a piece of ourselves, the…
7. 12:18you know, they want something. A child of 2 years old doesn't really have the ability…
8. 14:23waiting is putting the pause putting the pause on this ego that says, "I want it…
9. 16:24test. If I make it that you can't just have what you want. I play hard…
10. 18:26and but eating it before it's time, trying to get that fruit, trying to get the…

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