The weekly Torah portion of Ki Tisa * (Exodus 30:11 - 34:35) The Book of Exodus has a peculiarity that it sandwiches the episode of the Golden Calf between the instructions for the building of the portable Tabernacle, the Levites who serve in it and various sacrificial offerings. In fact even though the worship of the Golden Calf took place first, the description and commands to build the Tabernacle start before it, say the Jewish Sages, to teach the point that the Torah as we have it is not meant to be a "chronologically correct" book. The Torah Sages assert...