In this week’s parsha the golden calf was made.  A group gathered and ran to Aron and told him that Moshe was late in returning from Mount Sinai.  He had said he would return after 40 days at the 6th hour of the day and now it was past that.  They therefore felt that they needed a substitute for him and the idol would be that.  The Chofetz Chaim points out that the cause here for this terrible sin for which we are still today being punished for was impatience.  They simply did not have patience for the one day that was between their calculations and the correct ones.  Let us try to correct this mistake and have patience for others and for ourselves.