What is the significance of the word "ba'Boker"?
Rashi (in Yisro): We learn from here that Moshe always ascended Har Sinai early in the morning.
When did Moshe reascend Har Sinai for the second time?
Rashi #1 (in 33:11): On the ninetenth of Tamuz, after burning the Eigel and judging the sinners on the eighteenth.
Rashi #2 (in Yisro 18:13 and in Eikev Devarim, 9:18): On the eighteenth of Tamuz. 1
See Sisei Chachamim.
Bearing in mind that, when the letters flew away from the Luchos as he descended Har Sinai, Moshe was unable to hold the Luchos due to their weight (as the commentaries explained above in 32:19), how could he now possibly carry the Luchos all the way up the mountain?
Oznayim la'Torah #1: The answer lies in the words "Ka'asher Tzivah Hashem oso" - The command of Hashem gave him the strength to carry it out. 1
. Oznayim la'Torah #2: When the letters flew off the first Luchos, the Kedushah of the Luchos (which were in the place of the K'laf - the pardchment, which adopts Kedushah when it is prepared) flews off as well, rencdering them too heavy to carry, whereas the Kedushah of the second Luchos, which were ready to be inscribed, rendered them sufficiently light to carry.
This is problematic however, inasmuch as "Ka'asher Tzivah Hashem oso" is written, not in connection with carrying the Luchos, but with ascending the mounting? Morever in Pasuk 2, where the command to ascend the mountain was issued, nothing is said about taking the Luchos with him?
