[Avodah] The Two Tablets

[Yitzchok Levine]

In his article 
<http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf>Is 
there a Disconnect between Torah Learning and 
Torah Living? 
<http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf>(THE 
COMPLETE ARTICLE)   Rabbi Dr. Aharon Hersh 
Fried  makes the case that today there is far 
more emphasis on Bein Adom L'Makom than on Bein 
Adom L'Chaveiro.  In his commentary on Shemos 31 
makes RSRH makes it clear that this is not the Torah way.  YL

18 When He had finished speaking with him on 
Mount Sinai, He gave Moshe two Tablets of the 
Testimony, tablets of stone, written
with the finger of God.

Shnei Luchos ha'adus. We have already noted in our Commentary on
Bereshis 1:14–19 that the incomplete written form 
(k'siv chaser) of the feminine
plural represents a plurality of things in one concept — i.e., a
uniform common concept embodied in many subjects. So, too, here,
the written form “Lamed Ches Sof” teaches us to 
regard the Two Tablets as one unit
consisting of two mutually complementary parts. Thus the Midrash: lo
zu gedolah mizu (Shemos Rabbah 41:6). The Tablet of the duties toward God
and the Tablet of the duties toward one’s fellow man are both of the
same size, of the same weight, and are of equal importance. Only both
together represent the fundamentals of God’s Torah (see Commentary
above, 20:14). Placed together, they form a complete cube, with each
tablet comprising half the cube (see Commentary above, 25:10). 
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