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<DIV>Around August 12, 2007, there was a thread on "what was actually written on
the luchos" and I just came across this exchange from way back then -- which I
want to comment on. I had written this:</DIV>
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<DIV>>>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
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<DIV>In response, R' <FONT face=Arial size=2>Chaim Manaster wrote
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<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.)
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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>I found that post extremely interesting but didn't comment at the time
because I was upset at myself for something I had failed to do because I
got too distracted by the internet, so I fined myself one week
without posting to A/A. (I need AA for A/A actually.) And then
I failed to get back to this, I put it aside and forgot about it.
Here is what I meant to write:</DIV>
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<DIV>I seem to think that there was some such structure-of-structures in the
Chumash discussed in Natan Slifkin's book *The Science of Torah* but I don't
have my copy anymore. ( I must have lent it to someone who never returned
it.) There's nothing like it in the re-issued book, now called *The
Challenge of Creation.* I wish I still had *The Science of Torah* so I
could go back and look.</DIV>
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<DIV>The structure-of-structures in the Chumash -- the same pattern seen on a
larger scale replicated on a smaller scale -- was reminiscent of the repeating
patterns seen in the field of math known as "fractals." In fact IIRC there
was a beautiful photograph of a fractal mathematical figure on the front cover
of *The Science of Torah.* </DIV>
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