Parshat Ki Tissa
While Ki Tissa opens with the Lord's instructions about a census and the half-shekel tax for "the service of the Tent of Meeting", the parsha immediately shifts from the sacred ("'...you must keep My sabbaths, for this is a sign between Me and you throughout the ages...'") to the profane. Literally. Let's just say that with Moses still away up on Mount Sinai, the natives get restless. Talk about a Shonda (and Shabbat Mom does NOT mean Rhimes)! "...(T)he people gathered agains