Parashat Ki Tisa, read on March 7, 2026, recounts the famous story of the golden calf. While Moshe was on Mount Sinai for 40 days, waiting to receive the Torah, the people grew worried because he had been away for so long.
They asked Aaron, Moshe’s brother, to make something they could see and worship, so he collected their gold and created the golden calf. The people began celebrating and treating it like a god.
When Moshe came down the mountain with the tablets of the ten commandments, he saw what the people were doing and grew angry towards them. He smashed the tablets, though he also prayed to G-D to forgive the people.
Later, Moshe went back up Mount Sinai and received a second set of tablets. Thus, from this moment in the parsha, we learn that even when people make mistakes, they can learn from them and make improvements to their lives.
