{"id":2943,"date":"2026-03-08T07:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2026-03-08T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:29:47","slug":"torah-teaching-for-parsha-ki-tisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Torah Teaching for Parsha \u201cKi Tisa\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is perhaps one of the most important, most blunt, most twisted, and certainly &#8211; now, particularly &#8211; one of most utterly relevant Torah parashot in the Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a provocative two-part look at parsha Ki Tisa, Exodus 30:11 through chapter 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading starts with the command to take a head count, and how, and then continues through the infamous betrayal of the &#8216;golden calf&#8217; &#8212; first of many, as it turns out &#8212; and the aftermath:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SSM-3-6-Ki-Tisa-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How often do we hear about the idolatry of that &#8216;Golden Calf&#8217;? And the smug dismissal that it was so long ago, but &#8216;the Church&#8217; is SO much better than that &#8211; now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe there&#8217;s a lot more to it. And THAT would be why the Whore Church ignores all of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ki Tisa: &#8220;Why did Moses SMASH the first Tablets?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CooH-3-7-Ki-Tisa-WHY-did-Moses-Smash-the-1st-Tablets-podcast-xxxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part reading and Sabbath <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-torah-teaching-for-parsha-ki-tisa\/\" target=\"_blank\">midrash<\/a>, <\/strong>via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps one of the most important, most blunt, most twisted, and certainly &#8211; now, particularly &#8211; one of most utterly relevant Torah parashot in the Book. Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a provocative two-part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,74,1960,11,12],"tags":[200,65,28,1499,70,63,216,104,2272,817,2271,77,393,2273,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}