In this week’s parshat ki tisa, the leader of the nation, Moses, has distanced himself from the people, for he is on Mount Sinai talking to God. He is given many laws, culminating in the Sabbath ...

Perhaps coincidentally (or not), this same theme permeates both our parshah this week — Ki Tisa — and Purim, which we celebrated yesterday. In both of these, certain events transpire that were ...