Every day we make choices.Small ones and large ones. What to say and what to leave unsaid. Whether to react or to pause. Life rarely confronts us with grand crossroads. More often, it places before us a steady stream of quiet decisions that slowly shape the kind of people we become. Our lives are shaped not by a single grand choice, but by thousands of small ones.

In Parashat Ki Tisa we encounter one such choice.Aaron says to the people:

Remove the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me (Exodus 32:2)

Remove the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me (Exodus 32:2)

Aaron is unusually specific. The gold is to come from: “the people” (ha-am) often refers primarily to the men, wives, sons, and daughters- from the........

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