[Avodah] Luchos

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:02:17PM -0400, hankman wrote:
: The point you (RLT) make in your previous response is precisely the point
: RYH builds his
: thesis upon. The parallelism that exists between dibros 1-5 and dibros 6-10,
: the first set of 5 in a context of bein odom lamokom and the last 5 in the
: context of bein odomo lachaveiro...

I would have proposed a reverse parallelism, a symmetry, a-t ba-sh
style. Note that the first diberah is an avodah shebeleiv BAlM, whereas
the 10th is an avodah shebeleiw BAlC.

BTW, in case no one posted it already, the division of 5 and 5 is in
Mekhilta, besheim Rabbi Chanina b Gamliel. The chakhamim hold it was
two copies of all 10. Not that "yachid verabim" applies to this kind of
question, but it does mean the 5+5 idea is far from a given.

:-)BBii!
-mi