Parshah and Modern Israel: Ki Tisa

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Exodus 32 presents a dichotomy in the identity of the Israelites between their ties to the divine and their connections within the community. God tells Moses the Israelites are "your people," but Moses responds that they are "Your people." That same tension between the religious and the cultural, between the biblical and the modern, arises at the birth of the modern State of Israel when David Ben-Gurion convenes a committee to craft the Declaration of Independence. 

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Topic
  • TaNaKh
  • Jewish Text and Thought
  • Israel - Contemporary
  • Jewish Peoplehood
Setting
  • Congregational Learning
  • Teen Engagement
  • After School and Beyond
  • Camp

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