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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>R'n Toby Katz wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM>I don't know "who" says it but it is commonly said that the first five
are <BR>bein adam laMokom and the second five are bein adam lachaveiro,
strongly <BR>suggesting a parallel structure that wouldn't be obvious if,
say, four dibros were <BR>actually written on one luach and six on the
other.<BR>--------</EM></DIV>
<DIV>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.) </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kol Tuv,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chaim Manaster</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Montreal, Canada</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>