#ki tisa

[whatlieswithintheorchard]

okay, this post might be a bit ramble-y because i haven't sorted out my thoughts completely yet, but i've been thinking a lot about the golden calf. there are quite a few commentaries that link the incident of the golden calf with adam and even in gan eden and eating the fruit.

but there are also plenty of commentaries that expound on how eating from the fruit was a good thing! so a straightforward comparison of the two brings up the question of whether the incident of the golden calf was indeed as tantamount to losing the garden (ie all the other commentaries that explain how if it hadn't been for the golden calf, meshiach would have come, etc.)

i think what i take away learning from the incident is that holding on steadfastly to the traditions of your ancestors is tantamount to sin an idolatry. that our prayers and our traditions MUST change with time to avoid it becoming a calf. if we all were there at sinai, and have inherited this tradition, then why not have fun with it. go out and create trans prayers and rituals, explore what jewish magic is and can be, and how your ideas can help fulfill our communities.

#jumblr #jewish #ki tisa #torah #torah study

[girlactionfigure]

Weekly Thought - Ki Tisa

Was Aaron the high priest guilty?

#Ki Tisa #Judaism #Shabbat #Jewish #Youtube

[geostatonary]

tonight in torah study, we discuss the golden calf; g-d and moses grow the closest they've been; and moses develops a beam attack

#torah posting #ki tisa #soup of the day

[nonstandardrepertoire]

Ki Tisa

you don't have to be realistic to make portraits that people recognize. stick a stovepipe hat and a bushy beard on a teddy bear, and people will get that you mean it to be Abraham Lincoln. the right hat and pipe alone can suggest Sherlock Holmes. learning to identify these kinds of symbols can be very helpful in coming to grips with artistic traditions that make heavy use of them

if you spend a lot of time with Medieval Christian art, for example, you'll pretty quickly start to run across a figure of a guy with horns on his head. you might think that this is supposed to be Satan, but in many cases, you'd be wrong: that guy is supposed to be Mosheh

in this week's Torah portion, you see, Mosheh is said to have a face that is קָרַן/qaran after spending so much time conversing with G-d. contemporary translations will say that that means Mosheh's face "glowed", but it's a very rare word, and it looks a lot like the word קֶֽרֶן/qéren, which means "horn", and so the most influential Medieval Latin translation said that Mosheh's face had "horns" instead. (the idea underlying the Hebrew seems to be that rays of light emerge from glowing things in much the same way that horns emerge from the head of a ram or an ox)

seeing this prophet with horns tacked on can be a little unsettling, and the Biblical Israelites were certainly unsettled by Mosheh's glowing face, so much so that they were afraid to even come near Mosheh at first, and Mosheh starts wearing a veil around the camp

the Israelites' fear here has many echoes down thru the ages. in 1867, in the wake of the US Civil War and the California Gold Rush, the city of San Francisco was full of poor people and disabled veterans that the rich of the city found unappealing to look at. like the Biblical Israelites, they accepted their gut emotional reaction to those around them as fact, and came to the conclusion that their neighbors were at fault for causing these untidy emotions

rather than helping their neighbors access housing, medical care, and the necessities of dignified living, the rich of San Francisco passed the first of the so-called "ugly laws", bills that essentially made it a crime to be disabled in public, with predictable disparities in treatment along class and racial lines, de facto if not de jure. in the years that followed, similar laws were passed all around the country by cities that would rather arrest people than see to their needs. the last known arrest under one of these laws would ultimately occur in Oklahoma in 1974. today, many of them are still on the books, even if they are no longer enforced

and enforced or not, the spirit that animated these laws is still very much alive. in the US, we still very much live in a society that judges people based on how they look, a society where the powerful would rather remove some people from view than build community with them, a society where some people are given the very clear message that their presence is emphatically unwanted. those on the receiving end of this message often internalize it and start to pull away — "i won't speak up in that meeting because i don't want to take up space.", "maybe i shouldn't go to that gathering; i don't want to make people uncomfortable.", "i feel like even just quietly existing i am already taking up too much space"

even G-d isn't immune from these feelings. after the business with the golden calf, G-d says, "i'm not going to go with you, in the middle of your camp. maybe i'll be in a little tent off to the side here, but i can't be at the heart of your community anymore.". this might sound like a punishment, but G-d doesn't frame it that way in Shəmot. instead, G-d says "פֶּן אֲכֶלְךָ בַּדָּֽרֶךְ/pen akhelkha badárekh/lest i end you on the way". G-d is afraid of hurting the Israelites, and so tries to withdraw. it's a protective measure, not a punishment

it's also not a solution. haSheim cannot be the Israelites' G-d without actually being there, right there, in the thick of them. the Israelites cannot learn from Mosheh how they are to live without going up and being near him, glowing face and all. we cannot build a society together if we all pull away from one another, afraid of causing messy feelings or harm, or having messy feelings of our own in reaction to each other. we have to reach out. we have to connect

this doesn't mean we will never hurt each other. we will. the relationship between G-d, Mosheh, and the Israelites, too, continues to be full of strife, tumult, and harm. in building the world we want to live in, we will step on each other's toes, we'll butt heads forcefully, we'll commit a thousand sins small and grave. but there is no other way. there is no way to build a community without community, and there is no community without tension, friction, and discomfort, because communities are made of people, and people are too rich and varied and messy and complex to snap together perfectly and seamlessly like frictionless uniform bricks in a physics exercise

we will never be perfect. we will always be fraught. coming together to run a community, shape a society, build a better world will always require compromise and generate bruised feelings. but these efforts only fail entirely if we pull away permanently, if we fully disengage

when Mosheh's face begins to glow, he does put on a veil, but, crucially, not when he is talking to G-d or to the Israelites. to be in community with others, he has to be there as his whole, disquieting self, not a covered, tamed version modulated for others' comfort. we don't read that the Israelites ever really adjusted to this — for all we know, every time the light of Mosheh's face fell on them, they felt the same tremor they felt the first time around — but they come near all the same. we have to do so too

to build a world where we all can live and flourish, we have to show up as our full selves, and be ready for others to show up as their full selves too. this work is hard, it is messy, it is uncomfortable, but it is infinitely, irreplaceably worth doing. it is the work that is before us all

shavu'a tov

#ki tisa #dəvar hashavu'a #i want to do more of these i think once the siddur is out #project cranbery #and that's it

[eretzyisrael]

Shabbat Parah 2023 / שַׁבָּת פּרה 5783

Shabbat of the Red Heifer 🕍

Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 5783 begins at sundown on Friday, 10 March 2023 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, 11 March 2023. This corresponds to Parashat Ki Tisa.

Shabbat Parah (“Sabbath [of the] red heifer” שבת פרה) takes place on the Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 describes the parah adumah (“red heifer”) in the Jewish temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jewish people purified themselves so that they would be ready (“pure”) to sacrifice the korban Pesach.

#Shabbat Parah #Sabbath of the red heifer #Judaism #Ki Tisa

[torais-life]

Parashat Ki Tiza-El Pecado del becerro de oro, Clase Completa Rab Natan Menashe en YouTube

#torah #jumblr #torah study #biblia #parasha ha shavua #shalom #torah portion #youtube #shabbat shalom #rabino #rab. menashe #weekly parasha #ki tisa #moshe rabenu #am israel jai

[rickpoet]

"If your leader comes down the mountain a day or two later than expected don’t freak out" and other important steps to a successful covenant in this new video for my first poem for this week's text.

#poetry #torah #ki tisa #Youtube

[fdelopera]

Leonard Cohen's "Anthem" is what this week's parshah, Parashat Ki Tisa, means to me.

The broken pieces are how the light gets in.

The broken tablets are every bit as holy as the tablets that are whole. Because in those moments of brokenness, there is a hidden spark of renewal, of starting again.

"There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

Without the brokenness, we wouldn't be able to experience the divine spark that lights us all.

#jumblr #jewblr #torah study #parashat ki tisa #leonard cohen #Youtube

[magnetothemagnificent]

וְאֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל תְּדַבֵּ֣ר לֵאמֹ֑ר שֶׁ֠מֶן מִשְׁחַת־קֹ֨דֶשׁ יִהְיֶ֥ה זֶ֛ה לִ֖י לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

"And you shall speak to the people of Israel to say, this oil of holy anointing shall be for Me for all future generations."

-[Exodus, Ki Tisa, 30:31]

A meditation on testosterone being suspended in oil, thus making every injection an anointing.....

[id in alt text]

#my art #digital art #jewish art #trans #ftm #trans man #transmasc #testosterone #needles #trans art #hrt

[sullenaquarian]

I watched "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah" over the weekend. It was refreshing to watch a movie where being Jewish is just part of everyday life, and the Sandler girls are charming actresses.

But my favorite part was that Stacy's Torah portion was mine: Ki Tisa. Golden Calf girls, represent!

#you are so not invited to my bat mitzvah #adam sandler is literally just the Jewish dad #which was really sweet to see

[naveensarohasblog]

#Wayofliving_Part213

प्रकृति की सम्पूर्ण रचना || भाग-G (7)

Aanshik sacred speech, Mehla 1 (Shri Guru Granth Sahib, pageno. 359-360)

Siv nagri mahi aasni baesau Kalap tyaagi vaadM | (1)

Sindi sabad sada dhuni sohae ahinisi poorae naadM | (2)

Hari kirti reh raasi hamaari guru mukh panth ateetaM | (3)

Sagli joti hamaari samiaa nana varan anekaM |

Keh Nanak suni Bharthari jogi Paarbrahm liv ekaM | (4)

ऊपर दी गई पवित्र वाणी का सार यह है कि श्रीनानक साहिब कह रहे हैं कि हे भर्तारी योगी तेरी साधना शिव तक है और इसी वजह से तू शिव में स्थान प्राप्त कर लिया है

नगरी (शिव का लोक/जगत) सिंगी शब्द आदि। आपके शरीर में जो चल रहा है वो सिर्फ इन लॉट्स का है, और शरीर में सुनाई दे रहा है

हर भगवान के लोक से जैसे टीवी में।

मैं (नानक) अविभाजित मन से केवल एक परमात्मा ब्रह्म में लीन हो जाता हूँ, अर्थात परम परमात्मा, जो सबसे परे है और

क्या कोई और है। हम बाहर का दिखावा नहीं करते (जैसे, पूरे पर राख मार देना

शरीर, हाथ में एक छड़ी पकड़े हुए)। मैं सभी जीवों को एक परमात्मा (सतपुरुष) की संतान मानता हूँ। हर कोई उसकी शक्ति से ही क्रियात्मक है। मेरी मुद्रा पूर्ण गुरु से प्राप्त करके सच्चा नाम जपना है और मेरा बाना है

क्षमा करें। मैं परम परमेश्वर और मार्ग का पुजारी हूँ

पूर्ण सतगुरु की भक्ति तुमसे अलग है। "

Amrit Vaani, Raag Aasa, Mehla 1 (Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Pageno. 420)

||Aasa Mehla1 || jini naamu visaariaa doojae bharmi bhulaai moolu

chhodi daali lagey kiaa paavhi chhai ||1|| Saahibu mera eku hai avru nahin

bhaai | kirpa te sukhu paaiaa saache parthaai ||3 ||

Guru ki sewa so kare

jisu aapi karaaye | Nanak siru de chhutiye dargeh pati paaye ||8 ||18 ||

ऊपर दी गई पवित्र वाणी का अर्थ यह है कि श्रीनानक साहिब कह रहे हैं कि जो परमात्मा के वास्तविक नाम को भूल कर अन्य देवताओं के नाम (मंत्र) में भटक रहे हैं, वे जैसे जड़ (सुप्र) के स्थान पर एमई

भगवान) शाखाओ को पानी (पूजा) दे रहे हैं (तीन गुनाओ को,

राजगुन-ब्रह्मा, सतगुन-विष्णु, तमगुन-शिव)। कोई खुशी नहीं कर सकती

पूजा के उस तरीके से हासिल हो, जिसका मतलब है कि पौधा सूख जाएगा तो उसकी छाँव में नहीं बैठ पाओगे। सार

क्या बेबुनियाद पूजा करना व्यर्थ का प्रयास है। कोई नहीं है तो कोई नहीं

इसका लाभ उठाएं। इसका प्रमाण पवित्र गीता अध्याय 16Verses 23-24 में भी दिया गया है।

उस परम परमात्मा को प्राप्त करने के लिए अपनी मनमानी साधना त्यागनी पड़ती है पूर्ण गुरुदेव की शरण में जाकर भजन करना पड़ता है

सच्चा नाम/मंत्र। तभी पूर्ण मोक्ष संभव है। वरना मरने के बाद तो नर्क ही जायेगा।

(Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Page no.843-844)

|| Bilawalu Mehla 1 || main man chaahu ghanaa saachi vigaasi Ram |

mohi prem pire prabhu abinaasi Ram || avigato Hari naathu naathah tisae

bhaavae so theeye | kirpaalu sada daiaalu daata jiaa andari tu jeeye |

main aadhaaru tera tu khasmu mera main taanu takiaa terao saachi

soocha sada Nanak gursabdi jhagru nibero ||4 ||2||

श्री नानक साहिब कह रहे हैं कि सनातन परमात्मा सभी नाथों का नाथ है, अर्थात वह

is the God of all the devs (वो सभी देवो के स्वामी, श्री ब्रह्मा, श्री विष्णु, श्री शिव, ब्रह्म और परब्रह्म है)। मेरे पास है मैं-

सच्चे नाम/मंत्र (सच्चा नाम) को मेरे दिल में बिब किया। हे परम प्रभु ! आप सभी के जीवन का आधार हैं। तू ही मेरा मालिक है मैं तेरा ही भरोसे हूँ सतगुरू रूप में तुम ही आये हो

और सत भक्ति का निर्णायक ज्ञान देकर, सम्पूर्ण का निपटारा किया, अर्थात सभी शंकाओं का समाधान किया।

(Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Page no. 721, Raag Tilang, Mehla 1)

Yak arj guftam pesh to dar koon kartaar |

Hakka Kabir karim tu beaeb Parvardigaar |

Nanak bugoyad jan tura tere chaakra paakhaak |

ऊपर की वाणी में स्पष्ट किया गया है कि हे (हक्काकबीर) सत कबीर तुम (कुन करतार) शब्दस्वरूप परमात्मा हो जो

शब्द की शक्ति से सृष्टि करता है, अर्थात, तू ही सम्पूर्ण प्रकृति का निर्माता है; तू ही (बेएब) निर्दोष (परवारगीगर) सबका भविष्य और (करीम) दयालु ईश्वर है। मैं तेरा दास हूँ

servants.(Shri Guru Granth Sahib, Page no. 24, Raag Siri, Mehla 1)

Tera ek naam taare sansaar, main eho aas eho aadhaar

नानक नीच कहै बिचार, ये धनक रूप रहा करतार, यह ऊपर की पवित्र वाणी में सिद्ध हो गया है कि काशी में बुनकर (धनक) पूरे वंश का निर्माता (करतार) है।

पूर्ण वशीकरण के साथ श्री नानक साहिब कह रहे हैं कि मैं सत्य कहता हूं कि यह धनक अर्थात बुनकर कबीर ही पूर्ण/परम परमात्मा है (सतपुरुष)

महत्वपूर्ण:- प्रकृति की रचना कैसे हुई यह ऊपर दिए गए प्रमाण के टुकड़ों के सूचक ज्ञान से सिद्ध हो गया है।

अब परमात्मा की प्राप्ति होनी चाहिए। यह तो पूर्ण संत से (नाम/मंत्र) दीक्षा लेने से ही संभव है।

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[girlactionfigure]

Weekly Thought - Ki Tisa

Was Aaron the high priest guilty?

#Ki Tisa #Judaism #Shabbat #Jewish #Youtube

[geostatonary]

i’m not kidding about the beam attack, btw. Ibn Ezra has a callout post about it and everything.

#soup of the day #torah posting #Ki Tisa

[rabbisandra]

Earlier this week, we celebrated the holiday of Purim. Purim is fun, lighthearted, and lacks seriousness. Purim is a day of fun, joy, and feasting. A holiday for sending gifts to one another, and our Rabbis have even declared that we are kind of obligated to become somewhat inebriated on this day, where we can't tell the differences between the bad guy Haman and the blessed Mordechai. Behavior that is not tolerated all year long is encouraged on Purim. 

However, this week's Torah Portion Ki Tisa has a different mood, sober and somber themes where the Israelites commit the gravest sin of idolatry.   

It begins with the obligation incumbent upon everyone, rich and poor, to donate a half-shekel for the maintenance of the sanctuary. In today's modern times, we would call this the first-ever building fund.

#Torah #Judaism

[eretzyisrael]

SEE FOR YOURSELF

In this week’s Torah portion, God speaks to Moses on Mt. Sinai and gives him two stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments. This holy event is followed by a shocking tragedy: God tells Moses that down below, the Israelites are worshipping a calf made of gold.

Moses descends the mountain and when he sees the people dancing around their golden idol, he smashes the tablets in fury. But why doesn't he smash them as soon as he hears what is going on? Moses only gets angry when he personally witnesses the misbehavior. Does he not believe what God tells him? 

The Midrash explains that Moses wanted to teach the Israelites proper behavior. We should not give credence to a negative report about someone. As it is written, “Even if one hears something critical from a trustworthy person, one is not permitted to accept his word and take action on it if he does not see it himself." (Shemos Rabbah 46:1)

Moses modeled giving others the benefit of the doubt. Imagine how different the world would be if we all gave each other the benefit of the doubt!

Like Moses, may we always see the best in others, even when it's difficult!

Image: "The Adoration of the Golden Calf" by Nicolas Poussin, 1634

#Parashat Ki Tisa #Torah #Judaism

[pargolettasworld]

The continuing adventures of My Very Cool Rabbi.

The RitualWell description of the Aliyah is here.

#my synagogue is pretty cool #judaism