The Miracle of the Mem and Samekh on Moses's Tablets

"And Moses turned [and went down]" (Exodus 32:15) — he turned away from his trembling and strengthened himself. "And the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand" — [with him], like "and all the goods of his master were in his hand" (Genesis 24:10). "From their two sides" — because they were engraved, as the Rabbis say: the mem and the samekh that were in the tablets stood by a miracle. For all the letters, even though they are engraved, have a hold at their edges; but the mem and the samekh have no hold, since they were engraved through their four quarters, and nevertheless they did not fall. "On the one side and on the other they were written" — and the writing was from the six days of creation. Another interpretation: "engraved" (charut). Read not charut but cherut (freedom) — there is no free man except one who occupies himself with Torah.