In honor of last week’s parsha, Ki Tisa, where Moshe receives the Luchot, here’s my digital artwork depicting how Rashi interprets Rabbi Shamai’s description in the Talmud of their true appearance.

Rabbi Shamai states, “Forty on each tablet, as it is written, ‘on each side they were written,’ a square.” Rashi explains that since there isn’t enough space on the narrow sides, the Ten Commandments were inscribed twice on each broad side, front and back. (Shekalim 6a)