[Avodah] What was actually written on the luchos, zachor

[T613K at aol.com]

Around August 12, 2007, there was a thread on "what was actually written on  
the luchos" and I just came across this exchange from way back then -- which I 
 want to comment on.  I had written this:

 
>>I don't know "who" says it but it is commonly said that the first  five are 
 
bein adam laMokom and the second five are bein adam  lachaveiro, strongly  
suggesting a parallel structure that wouldn't  be obvious if, say, four 
dibros  were 
actually written on one luach  and six on the other.<<

In response, R' Chaim Manaster wrote  this:
 



>>A friend of mine, a musmach of Ner Yisrael, R. Yehoshua  Honigwachs, has a 
thesis that the parallel 5 dibros on each luach are  megaleh a structure of  
Torah as a whole. These five main concepts  each one indicated in one of the 5 
parallel dibros (one lamokom and the  other lachaveiro) lead to an 
understanding of the basic structure (unity)  of  (Chamisha Chumshei) Torah. Thus Torah 
can be analyzed as  follows:  the 1st commandment's underlying theme 
represented in   Bereishis, the 2nd commandment's main theme in Shemos and so on. Then, 
within  each chumosh it's parshios can further be subdivided at the next level 
by  sub-themes based on each of the five dibros and so on to lower  levels of 
subdivision. (Sort of like Chesed shebeGevura etc.)  




He spells out this thesis in a book he authored  "The Unity of Torah" 
published by Feldheim (1991) with a short foreword from  R. Yaakov Weinberg, zt"l The 
Rosh HaYeshiva of Ner Yisrael, which seems to be  more of a haskoma than a 
foreword, in which RYH puts forward his  thesis and illustrates it by examples 
from Bereishis. I suspect that this  thesis deserves a much wider exposure than 
it has received to  date.<<
 


>>>>>
I found that post extremely interesting but didn't comment at the time  
because I was upset at myself for something I had failed to do because I  got too 
distracted by the internet, so I fined myself one week  without posting to A/A. 
 (I need AA for A/A actually.)  And then  I failed to get back to this, I put 
it aside and forgot about it.   Here is what I meant to write:
 
I seem to think that there was some such structure-of-structures in the  
Chumash discussed in Natan Slifkin's book *The Science of Torah* but I don't  have 
my copy anymore. ( I must have lent it to someone who never returned  it.)  
There's nothing like it in the re-issued book, now called *The  Challenge of 
Creation.*  I wish I still had *The Science of Torah* so I  could go back and 
look.
 
The structure-of-structures in the Chumash -- the same pattern seen on a  
larger scale replicated on a smaller scale -- was reminiscent of the repeating  
patterns seen in the field of math known as "fractals."  In fact IIRC there  
was a beautiful photograph of a fractal mathematical figure on the front cover  
of *The Science of Torah.* 
 


--Toby  Katz
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