Tisa, which this year was also Purim Meshulash, the grand Melave Malka benefitting Keren Chaya Mushka was held for the twenty ...

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praying together, and b’ezrat Hashem we were zoche to Hashem’s awesome miracles – the miracle of Purim. May we merit true achdus and recommitment to Torah on this Purim day, erev Shabbat Ki ...

The only time God ever spoke in public – and it was to a crowd of approximately two million of us – it turned out to be too much for us to handle such a cosmic force. After hearing the first ...

Perhaps coincidentally (or not), this same theme permeates both our parshah this week — Ki Tisa — and Purim, which we celebrated yesterday. In both of these, certain events transpire that were ...

Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face was radiant. They were afraid to approach him. ~ Exodus 34:30 this glow of history and promise. It frightens the neighbors ...

Among non-Orthodox Jews, a bar mitzvah often marks the last day a boy takes his Judaism seriously. It serves as a graduation rather than an initiation day. The parents of the boy evidently regard ...

Parshat Ki Tisa: Exodus 30:11-34:35; I Kings 18:1-39. Our parshah this week contains one of the most memorable accounts within the Book of Shemot. Sandwiched between the beginning and end of the ...

6:43 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: 7:44 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 8:15 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Rambam Yomi: Hilchos Ovdei Kochavim v’Chukoseihem chap. 4-6 ...

Parashat Ki Tissa opens with G-d’s commanding Moshe to take a census of the Children of Israel: “Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying: When you take a census of the Children of Israel according to ...