[Avodah] Shape of Luchos

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:50:11PM -0400, Zvi Lampel wrote:
: Some weeks ago I spent a Shabbos in the Yeshiva of Staten Island,
: whose Aron has a depiction with the curved tops. But I then noticed that
: going along the bottom of the luchos was a solid gold-colored curve. It
: occurred to me that perhaps it was really a corrupted depiction ...
:                of an open book, the way one would draw it--two curves
: at the top and two at the bottom.

I thought that it's pretty well accepted that the current image
of the luchos is a product of Michaelangelo's creativity. (See
<http://tinyurl.com/5ee84> for image of statue in question.)

-mi