Our parashah tells us that Moshe Rabeinu stayed 40 days on Mount Sinai and learned the Torah from the mouth of G-d; HaShem gave him the Tablets of the Covenant and the Torah to deliver to the Children of Israel. The Torah describes how on the 39th day, when Moshe was on the Mount, the people of Israel committed the worst of sins, the sin of the Calf. However, it does not tell us that G-d stopped teaching the Torah to Moshe Rabeinu, on the contrary, he continued to teach him and gave him on the 40th day the Tablets written by the finger of G-d to deliver them to Israel, even though they sinned. How was that G-d chose to give the Children of Israel the greatest of gifts, the Holy Torah, precisely on the day that his spiritual level had such a decline? And what can we learn from this for our daily service to HaShem?
This fact was repeated later, at the time of the destruction of the Beith HaMikdash, the sanctuary of G-d, devastated by the sins of the people of Israel. Actually G-d is not in a hurry to punish his people, he waited many years that they do teshuvah and sent his servants, the prophets, only after they did not return and continued sinning throughout the years, G-d brought the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash.
HaShem's love for the Children of Israel is, as the Baal Shem Tov said: "Like an only son born to his parents in his old age and more." G-d gave the Torah to Israel even in a state of descent to help them rise from their level and return to full teshuvah. To save the Jews from "spiritual descent" after they committed the sin of the Calf, he sent Moshe Rabbeinu to teach them the Holy Torah.
When we see, G-d forbid, a Jew who is in the category of a sinner, and who knows nothing about keeping the Torah and its mitzvot, is not a sign that we should accept his condition. Quite the contrary, we must guide him as G-d guides us, offer him the Torah within the highest level of holiness, like the very Tablets of the covenant, we must help him return to his sources, eagerly recognize the interior of his Divine soul and strengthen the true bond with the Creator through the study of Torah and the fulfillment of the mitzvot of G-d. This drives both the one who influences and the one who receives the influence to become a "channel" to spread the light of G-d in the world, and thus hasten the arrival of our righteous Mashiach, soon, in our days.
