Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Rosh Hashana 

Parsha:

Bereishit,  Ki Tisa 

Collections: Breaking the Luchot

References: Berachot: 32A ,  Nidah: 30B  

Description

Explaining an idea from Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik in his essay שליחות, on the two צלם אלקים missions of a human being - to act, and to introspect - as applied to Moshe's ability to carry the blank luchot up the mountain, but not to carry them down.