Parsha:

Ki Tisa 

Description

The instruction to build the Mishkan is inseparable from the very notion of Torah Shebe’al Peh, the Oral Torah, suggests R. Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, more commonly known as the Beit Halevi (Sheilot u’’Teshuvot Beit haLevi, Drasha #18). Borrowing from the Midrash Tanchuma (Ki Tisa #34), that the giving of the second set of luchot was the moment when the Oral Torah was first developed, the Beit Halevi contrasts the relationship the Jewish people has with the Torah given with the first luchot, conceived to be totally written without any Oral law, and the reconstituted Torah with the second luchot, in which Torah was divided into two, with a written and an oral paradigm.