Va’etchanan (“I implored Hashem at that time”)

Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11

Moses participates in receiving the second “luchot” – the sapphire tablets of the ten commandments.  Here the “luchot” emerge from deeper space with the Kabbalistic imagery.  On the tablets are the letter “aleph” – the first silent letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the “lamed” which begins the word “no” that prefaces the negative commandments.  Around the tablets are the ten sephirot – the energy centers of Kabbalistic cosmology.  These same energy centers are radiating through threw Moses.