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

[hankman]

R'n Toby Katz wrote:
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.
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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.

Kol Tuv,

Chaim Manaster
Montreal, Canada
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