[Avodah] The Two Tablets

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> The first luach, that with the 5 mitzvos BALM, had far more words on
> it than the second luach and its list of 5 mitzvos BALC. Assuming each
> text was written to fill the space, this means that the letters on the
> second luach were far larger and could be read from a further disance
> than those on the first.

Why would we make that assumption?  Surely it's more straightforward
to assume the writing was the same size throughout.  (This reminds me
of the question that came up recently on another list, about the minhag
some have of writing the ten sons of Haman on a page of their own.
If the rest of that megillah has more than 11 lines per page, then
the sofer must either use super-large letters or leave lots of space.
The problem with using large letters is that we have a mesorah of which
letters should be big or small, and these pesukim are meant to be neither.)

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