This is the shiur I gave yesterday at Midreshet Rachel. It is the second of my series on the six things that we must remember daily (although in the siddur it is actually the fourth one, but I explained in the shiur that the second and third fit in very well with the next two weeks’ parshiot so I will do them then).
It deals with the sin of the Golden Calf – what was the issue that the Israelites were trying to fix with the Calf, why a calf and not any other kind of animal/object and how all of this connects with Yosef.
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Wishing everyone a great Shabbat and Happy Tu B’Shvat.
Rabbi Sedley