03-01-2022, 05:40 PM
(03-01-2022, 03:58 PM)Blue Bird Wrote: I think I see what's important to you here... to grow up instead of staring at miracles.
A small objection... it was G‑d who wrote on the second set of tablets.
And the Lord said to Moses: "Hew for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones. And I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke..."
Well sort of!
Actually, what is important to me are these 4 lines -
It is not what happens to us, but what we do that gives us identity and responsibility.
What transformed the Israelite's is not what G-d did for them, but what they did for G-d.
The Israelite's were indeed transformed - not by a miracle, but by their own efforts,
What we do changes us, not what is done for us.
As for your objection, there seems to be several thoughts on this as Exodus 34:27 says -
"The Lord said to Moses: "Inscribe these words for yourself, for according to these words I have formed a covenant with you and with Israel."
Here is a commentary that shows this doesn't have a clear answer -
https://www.jtsa.edu/torah/who-wrote-the...mandments/
Thanks for making note of that though!