
How is it possible that the people of Israel, who witnessed with their own eyes the parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Plagues, and the giving of the Torah, would commit the sin of the calf? And what causes Moses, our Lord, who had just come down from Mount Sinai with the Tablets of the Covenant in his hands, to break them in front of the entire people of Israel?
In a special and moving lesson on Parashat Ki Tisha, Rabbi Shneur Ashkenazi delves into the dramatic story of the sin of the calf: What really happened there? What went through the minds of the people? And why did Moses, the greatest leader, break the tablets he received from God?