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In his article
<a href="http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf"><font size=2>Is
there a Disconnect between Torah Learning and Torah
Living?</a></font><font size=3>
</font><a href="http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%206%20Fried.pdf">
<font face="Verdana" size=2>(THE COMPLETE
ARTICLE)</a></font><font size=3> Rabbi Dr. <i>Aharon Hersh
Fried </i>makes the case that today there is far more emphasis on
Bein Adom L'Makom than on Bein Adom L'Chaveiro. In his</font>
commentary on Shemos 31 makes RSRH makes it clear that this is not the
Torah way. YL<br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>18
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>When He had finished
speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moshe two Tablets of the
Testimony, tablets of stone, written<br>
with the finger of God.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>Shnei Luchos
ha'adus</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>. We have
already noted in our Commentary on<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Bereshis
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>1:14–19 that the
incomplete written form (<i>k'siv chaser</i>) of the feminine<br>
plural represents a plurality of things in one concept — i.e., a<br>
uniform common concept embodied in many subjects. So, too, here,<br>
the written form “</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>Lamed Ches
Sof</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>” teaches us to regard the
Two Tablets as one unit<br>
consisting of two mutually complementary parts. Thus the Midrash:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>lo <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>zu gedolah mizu</i>
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Shemos Rabbah
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>41:6). The Tablet of the
duties toward God<br>
and the Tablet of the duties toward one’s fellow man are both of the<br>
same size, of the same weight, and are of equal importance. Only
both<br>
together represent the fundamentals of God’s Torah (see Commentary<br>
above, 20:14). Placed together, they form a complete cube, with each<br>
tablet comprising half the cube (see Commentary above,
25:10).</font></body>
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