Ki Tissa

The "sound of battle" Joshua relates
is something like a carnival below.
The efforts building mishkan consecrates,
unchanneled, find another way to flow.
The bulls that gleamed in Jeroboam's cult
enticed some worshippers to skip the trek.
A staid decor, more fit for an adult,
sufficed to satisfy the Temple's spec.
Had Jeroboam known this piece of text,
he'd never have reprised this cultic crime.
Strange worship Torah utterly rejects,
is not the way to launch a rival shrine.
Whatever Aaron wrought on our behalf
in retrospect, must not have been a calf.