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Shiur HaRav Soloveichik ZT"L on Parshas Ki Tisa
(Shiur date: 2/26/57 from the shiurim of the Rav ZT"L on Masechet Brachos)
The Torah tells us that Moshe prayed 3 separate times during the episode of the golden calf and its aftermath. The first prayer was Vayechal Moshe, the prayer that Moshe offered immediately upon being informed by Hashem that Bnay Yisrael sinned in the gravest manner, by creating an idol. The Torah records Moshe's remarkably short prayer, after which the Torah tells us that God, Kivayachol, consoled Himself (Vayinachem Hashem) and Moshe descended the mountain with the Luchos. After [...]