Moses smashed the tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments to make a point.
A shrill Bronx voice rises above the general uproar, just after the scene in which Moses has smashed the tablets: "Geez, he hit a homer!" View Article By Jelani Cobb By Joan Acocella By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai to discover that Aaron has led his people to make a golden bull, he smashed the tablets and pulverized the bull.
Then God gives him the tablets with the Commandments, and Moses carries them down and — doh! — sees the people worshipping a little golden cow, and smashes the tablets, because his "anger waxed hot".
"This mon-stros-ity," Mr. Byrd has been calling the bill, repeatedly lifting its 484 pages above his head with trembling hands and flinging them down on his desk with the fury of Moses smashing the tablets.
Seeing the golden calf, Moses smashes the tablets God has carved as he descends from the mountain.
And Moses smashes the tablets of the Torah to smithereens amid the people down in the plain.
Landis's courtroom, room 627 in the Chicago Federal Building, was ornate and featured two murals; one of King John conceding Magna Carta, the other of Moses about to smash the tablets of the Ten Commandments.
Considered one of the world's greatest archaeological treasures, it was violently destroyed by ISIS, who posted videos in March and April 2015 showing their fighters using sledgehammers to smash ancient tablets and a winged bull, levelling more of the site with a bulldozer, and eventually setting off explosives to destroy what remained of the almost 3000-year old structures.
Then the temple itself was attacked during the Cultural Revolution, leaving the tablets smashed, the family registers burned.
