This is perhaps one of the most important, most blunt, most twisted, and certainly – now, particularly – one of most utterly relevant Torah parashot in the Book.

Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a provocative two-part look at parsha Ki Tisa, Exodus 30:11 through chapter 34.

The Erev Shabbat reading starts with the command to take a head count, and how, and then continues through the infamous betrayal of the ‘golden calf’ — first of many, as it turns out — and the aftermath:

How often do we hear about the idolatry of that ‘Golden Calf’? And the smug dismissal that it was so long ago, but ‘the Church’ is SO much better than that – now.

Really?

Maybe there’s a lot more to it. And THAT would be why the Whore Church ignores all of that.

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash: