Moses did not break the tablets because he was angry and lost his control. Rather, the breaking of the tablets was the beginning of the healing process.

It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion, depicting the golden calf incident and Moses’ destruction of the tablets in anger.

Moses hewed a second set of stone tablets; G-d engraved them also with the Ten Commandments, and Moses gave them to the Jewish people. Yet a few major questions come to mind. 1.