RR Pasach 3 Torah Lesson – Exodus 33-12-34:26 By Jeffrey Freeman
Shabbat Shalom,
Fellow believers,
Rabbi Michael has kindly offered me the opportunity to share some thoughts on the weekly Torah portion with you. My first writing happens to occur in a week that does not have a typical Torah reading because of Passover. Instead, we have special daily readings rather than a typical weekly Parshah during Passover. For today the reading is from Exodus 33:12-34:26. This is part of Parshah Ki Tisa, which we read for Shabbat March 7 (18 Adar). This reading is the middle section of Ki Tisa.
In Exodus 34:1-9 Adonai tells Moses to, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon them the words that were on the first tablets, the ones you broke.” After carving the tablets, Moses gets up early the next morning and heads up the mountain to meet with God. After the Golden Calf incident and Moses smashing the tablets containing the Ten Words, one would expect that the LORD would have a bit of a recalibration session with Moses…but such is not the case.
The first thing the LORD does is to pass before Moses and proclaim His glory through His thirteen attributes. Among God’s attributes are compassion, grace, patience, lovingkindness, truth, and forgiveness. God is a God of restoration. God wants a relationship with us and is willing to forgive our past misdeeds if we repent of our bad behavior and seek forgiveness – then through the Tabernacle/Temple services, now through His Son.
Yeshua came to show us through His example how to represent each of God’s thirteen attributes in our daily life. Titus 2:11-13 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, training us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live in a manner that is self-controlled and righteous and godly in the present age.” Paul is encouraging Titus to seek a closer walk with the LORD through correct behavior.
However, Paul also reminds Titus that deeds alone cannot save us. There is but one way to attain true salvation. Titus 3:4-7 “But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared – not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy – He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, whom He abundantly poured out on us through Messiah Yeshua our Savior, so that being set right by His grace, we might become heirs with the confident hope of eternal life.”
As we go through the Feast of Matzoh and eat the Bread of Affliction each day, consider all that the LORD has done for you. Seek a closer walk with Him by pushing ungodly activities out of your life and incorporating more God-based activities each day. Remember always, God is a God of restoration…so much so that He gave His only Son to redeem us from our own sins, giving us opportunity to draw closer to Him. Blessings.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Sat4-Apr-2026 17th of Nisan, 5786 Parashat Pesach III
Ex 34:1-26, Nu 28:19-25 Ez 37:1-14, Song of Songs 1-8 Eph 5:25-33
Fellow believers,
Rabbi Michael has kindly offered me the opportunity to share some thoughts on the weekly Torah portion with you. My first writing happens to occur in a week that does not have a typical Torah reading because of Passover. Instead, we have special daily readings rather than a typical weekly Parshah during Passover. For today the reading is from Exodus 33:12-34:26. This is part of Parshah Ki Tisa, which we read for Shabbat March 7 (18 Adar). This reading is the middle section of Ki Tisa.
In Exodus 34:1-9 Adonai tells Moses to, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon them the words that were on the first tablets, the ones you broke.” After carving the tablets, Moses gets up early the next morning and heads up the mountain to meet with God. After the Golden Calf incident and Moses smashing the tablets containing the Ten Words, one would expect that the LORD would have a bit of a recalibration session with Moses…but such is not the case.
The first thing the LORD does is to pass before Moses and proclaim His glory through His thirteen attributes. Among God’s attributes are compassion, grace, patience, lovingkindness, truth, and forgiveness. God is a God of restoration. God wants a relationship with us and is willing to forgive our past misdeeds if we repent of our bad behavior and seek forgiveness – then through the Tabernacle/Temple services, now through His Son.
Yeshua came to show us through His example how to represent each of God’s thirteen attributes in our daily life. Titus 2:11-13 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, training us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live in a manner that is self-controlled and righteous and godly in the present age.” Paul is encouraging Titus to seek a closer walk with the LORD through correct behavior.
However, Paul also reminds Titus that deeds alone cannot save us. There is but one way to attain true salvation. Titus 3:4-7 “But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared – not by deeds of righteousness which we had done ourselves, but because of His mercy – He saved us through the mikveh of rebirth and renewing of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, whom He abundantly poured out on us through Messiah Yeshua our Savior, so that being set right by His grace, we might become heirs with the confident hope of eternal life.”
As we go through the Feast of Matzoh and eat the Bread of Affliction each day, consider all that the LORD has done for you. Seek a closer walk with Him by pushing ungodly activities out of your life and incorporating more God-based activities each day. Remember always, God is a God of restoration…so much so that He gave His only Son to redeem us from our own sins, giving us opportunity to draw closer to Him. Blessings.
Daily Bread, reading plan by Lars Enarson (https://www.thewatchman.org/)
Sat4-Apr-2026 17th of Nisan, 5786 Parashat Pesach III
Ex 34:1-26, Nu 28:19-25 Ez 37:1-14, Song of Songs 1-8 Eph 5:25-33
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