In Parshas Ki Sisa, Moshe Rabbeinu comes down from Har Sinai, after spending the last 40 days and nights dwelling in the presence of Hashem, holding the Luchos – only to be confronted by the sight of the people, who were waiting below, that they constructed a Golden Calf. As it states, “It happened as he drew near the camp, and he saw the calf and the dancers, that Moses’ anger burned. And he threw down the tablets from his hand, and he shattered them at the bottom of the mountain. He took the calf that they had made, and he burned it in fire. He ground it into a fine powder and strewed it in the water. And he made the Children of Israel drink from it” (Sh’mos 32:19).