Ten Commandments

We all have heard of the "Big Ten." Now read them. Study them, Apply them to your life.

A selection of insights, stories and essays on the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are really five: the sixth commandment is but an extension of the first, the 2nd commandment and the 7th commandmenment are likewise one and the same, and so on

The Preparations, The Revelation on Sinai, The Ten Commandments, Moses Receives the Torah

Rebellion, Aaron Plays for Time, Moses Return:, Punishment of the Guilty, Atonement, Second Tablets, G-D Forgives the People

The Torah reading for the 1st day of Shavuot is from Exodus 19-20, which recounts the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (see "Today in Jewish History") and includes the "Ten Commandments" proclaimed at Sinai that encapsulate the entire Torah. Links: The ...

Seeing as in this week’s Parshah Moses reviews the Big Ten, why not go through the list to see how we score?

G-d spoke to the entire Jewish people on Mount Sinai, yet the Ten Commandments are exressed in the singular -- as if G-d is speaking to a single person

“Honor your father and mother.” The same language used in the commandment of honoring and fearing G‑d is used to refer to one's parents. How so?

The right-hand tablet contained 146 words. The left-hand tablet had only 26 words. Yet tradition has it that both tablets were filled with writing. How did 26 words equal the space of 146 words?