Selections from Names/Shemot in Ki Tissa Ex. 30.11-34.35
God singles out Bezalel and Oholiab endowing them
With refined awareness, ability, craftsmanship and knowledge
Bring forth the holy artists in yourself
How quickly one turns aside from the way God shows us
We tend to bow and sacrifice to golden calves
Thinking God can be defined by one form or another
Prostrate and pray: Pardon my iniquity. I remember Your vow
To our ancestors. Take us for your own and go in our midst
In the morning present yourself to me and I’ll pass before
you
Revealing compassion, kindness, truth, omnipotence, patience
Vast love, remembering your good deeds, and for the
repentant
Forgiving sins, rebellion and error
God says, hereby I make a covenant with you
Take a count of your numbers This
is empowering
As a sign between us forever to know you’re consecrated
You Israelites (all seekers of
truth) keep my Sabbaths
Weekly retreats celebrating the Oneness
Give some money as an offering to serve the Tents of
Meeting
Always give something to support sacred places
Redeem every firstborn; don’t come before me empty-handed
Every child is our firstborn. Come before God with offerings
Don’t offer sacrifices to me with leaven (pride)
When you’re stiff-necked, I don’t go in your midst
Lest you be destroyed. So leave off your finery (vanity)
Don’t boil a kid in its mother’s milk
Have compassion for all animals
Come down from the heights bearing the covenant
Two tables of stone (letter
symbols) inscribed on both sides
The work and writing of El (of God)
Write down these teachings (and
live them)
For with them you strike a covenant with God
