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.

Marc Chagall, Moses Breaks the Tablets (1930s) Under Chagall’s brush, the Tablets are the biblical equivalent of trick candles on a birthday cake or Road Runner.

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.