Therefore, he smashed the tablets so that they would not know that they weren t supposed to worship idols. The second opinion is that Moses didn t really smash them he dropped them. When the letters saw what was going on, says a fanciful midrash, they flew off the tablets and they became too heavy for Moses to carry. Or, says another midrash, Moses and God were carrying the tablets together. Moses could not carry them by himself, and so he dropped them.
Perfect organizations get perfect rabbis and educators and cantors and lay leaders.
Everyone else has to make do. Even our imperfections are holy. Even our failings are sacred. Even our broken tablets which, says the lore of our people, were brought with us in an ark next to the intact tablets of the covenant.