Parshat Ki Tisah

Parashat Ki Tisa opens with Parashat Shkalim, which we read two weeks ago. Hashem asks Moshe to take a census of Bnei Israel, each person aged twenty and older. The verse says: “This they shall give, everyone who passes among those who are counted, half a shekel...

The Oil of Sacrement

Jeff Kupferberg Oleh from Montreal and friend of Torah MiTzion Click Here for the PDF version   In this week’s Parsha, Hashem commands Moshe to gather approximately 25.5kg of prime spices: myrrh, cinnamon, cane of aromatic spice, kiddah, and a hin (about 5.7 liters)...

Kol Ha’kavod on Breaking the Tablets?!

In Parshat Ki Tisa, in reaction to the sin of the Golden Calf, Moshe breaks the tablets on which the Ten Commandments are written. Immediately the question arises: how can Moshe decide on his own initiative to break the divinely given tablets? Even more so, the Rabbis...

Insight on Incense

Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah MiTzion . .   Insight on Incense   In this week’s parsha, Ki Tissa, Moshe is commanded to: “take sweet spices… and make it into incense, a compound according to the art of the perfumer, well blended, pure and holy; and you...