Parsha 21 of 54 · Sefer Shemos
6 pieces on Parshas Ki Sisa, one for each year it was written. Each opens as a PDF.
5781–82 · Year 1 · 2 pages
Issue 2 vol 9 March 5-6, 2021 Adar 21-22, 5781 This week’s Parsha- Ki Sisa is filled with a roller coaster of events. At first the Parsha begins with the commandment to give the ½ shekel as part of the census of the Jews. It then goes through some services of…
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5782–83 · Year 2 · 2 pages
This week’s parsha famously recounts the destruction of the Luchos after Moshe saw the Jews engaged in the sin of the golden calf. The parsha begins with the giving of the half shekel as a form of redemption, a form of donation, and a method of a census of…
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5783–84 · Year 3 · 1 page
This week’s parsha is Ki Sisa; at the beginning of the Parsha, the Jews are instructed to give a half shekel as a counting method. According to some Mepharshim, the half-shekel is a specific denomination that should be used for counting (meaning all counting…
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5784–85 · Year 4 · 1 page
This week’s parsha is Ki Sisa, which covers the various donations to the Mishkan and the sin of the golden calf. The parsha begins with the giving of the half shekel for the census but is a redemption, as Rashi points out, because counting people give an evil…
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5785–86 · Year 5 · 1 page
This week’s parsha is Ki Sisa, where the Torah introduces the half shekel to count the Jews. There is also a minhag that on Erev Purim, we give a half Shekel as a commemoration of the coins offered in the Beis Hamikdash during Adar. We are taught that the…
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5786–87 · Year 6 · 3 pages
This week’s Parsha, Ki Sisa, is pivotal, as it is the Parsha that recounts the sin of the Golden Calf, which was a major inflection point in Jewish history. The recent birth of the nation, the promise of the Torah, and the redemption from Egypt would have…
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