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Breaking the boards

שו”תCategory: philosophyBreaking the boards
asked 4 years ago

Maybe a known question but…
Today we are interested in the breaking of the tablets (among other things), but it is written that they said to Moses, “Blessed be your strength that you broke,” so breaking the tablets is a good thing. So why do we fast about it? And if we fast about the fact that it was necessary to break them because of the calf (in other words, bless your strength now in retrospect, but in the first place it would certainly have been better if we had not had to break them), we should have said that we fast about the calf and not about breaking the tablets?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
First, we don’t fast for the breaking of the tablets. That’s one of the five things that happened on this day, but the fast is for the breaching of the wall. Second, there’s no problem with saying that we fast for the breaking of the tablets when it happened because of the calf. We fast because we reached a situation where we had to break the tablets.

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