The word chok ("statute" or "decree"), which gives the Parshah of Bechukotai its name, literally means "engraved".
The Torah comes in two forms: written and engraved. On the last day
of his life, Moshè inscribed the Torah on parchment scrolls. But this
written Torah was preceded by an engraved Torah: the Divine law was
first given to us encapsulated in the Ten Commandments, which were
etched by the hand of G-d in two tablets of stone.
So for parashah Bechukotai we decided to engrave the letters of Shemà Yisrael into modelling clay, like on a stone.
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