Parsha Ki Tisa

This week, Rabbi Miriam shares a 90-second video sermon on Parashat Ki Tisa. She reflects:

Football matches, protests, weddings, festivals... we have such energy and power in a crowd. But that same energy can pull a group of people in a dark direction. In this week's parasha, Ki Tisa, it leads to the creation of the golden calf - our people's biggest, blindest betrayal.

I think we need an extra awareness when we're in a big crowd - what energy is being created here? Is it for good? Am a conscious of my own intuition or am a swept up in something beyond myself?

Sometimes, as the Chizkuni teaches, there's a very fine line - the difference between an alef and an ayin.