Rabbi Menachem Posner serves as managing editor at Chabad.org, the world’s largest Jewish informational website. He has been writing, researching, and editing for Chabad.org since 2006, when he received his rabbinic degree from Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch. He lives in Chicago, Ill., with his family.
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Margaret Wilson
Chicago
May 22, 2026
10 out of 10, I found it interesting to learn the difference between the Jewish and the Christian version in my reading today. Reply
Marcy Vasváry
Edinburgh
February 16, 2026
6/10 Not bad Reply
michael
Nampa
via jewishidaho.com
February 8, 2026
6/10 If the L-rd G-d of host had not thought that they were not important all ten he would not of given them to us twice Reply
Angela wilder
Brooklyn
February 6, 2026
9/10 Reply
Mitah Mouquet
Barnham
February 6, 2026
Got 3 and 8 wrong, but I think my answers are according to Scripture Reply
Lauren
Sisters, OR
February 6, 2026
9/10: Reply
Brian Melmoth
Kwa Zulu Natal , South Africa
February 6, 2026
Shalom, I really love this quiz, although I only managed seven correct answers, as a Gentile I have learned something special. Shalom-shalom. Reply
JDV
February 5, 2026
i had to take the test twice and still got one wrong! Is there a commandment against complaining? There should be! Reply
Mori Goldlist
North York, Ontario
February 5, 2026
If HaShem gave man "free will" why would He restrict that "free will" with commandments ? Reply
Rabbi Golomb
Sheffield UK
February 6, 2026
in response to Mori Goldlist:
Proof of free will is only when you're given commandments and still have the choice whether to obey or not Reply
William Ganz
Florida
via jewishcentury.com
February 6, 2026
in response to Mori Goldlist:
Hashem guides us with restrictions, but allows us free will Reply
Susie Staples
Pittsburgh
February 6, 2026
in response to Mori Goldlist:
HaShem gave us commandments because He knew if He didn't we would be following the ways of satan and doing the things that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were doing. He was trying to keep us on somewhat of a good path by giving us commandments. He knew that even with "free will", there would be people who would break the commandments and there are. Reply
Mori Goldlist
North York, Ontario
February 6, 2026
in response to Rabbi Golomb :
So what is the actual/CLOSEST English word for "commandment" ? Could it be "suggestion" or "recommendation". Any COMMAND, punishable by penalty, is a restriction on "Free Will" I have always believed that HaShem set down His laws as a gift. The reward for following His formula is THE REWARD of having follwed His "suggestion" whereas the purposeful failure to follow those suggestions are in fact the punishment of denying yourself that opportunity of availing yourself of the "reward". Reply
Rabbi Golomb
Sheffield UK
February 10, 2026
in response to Mori Goldlist:
Commandment does not reflect the Hebrew. A better translation for "dibrot" is statements.
The general term is mitzvah, which Chassidus explains as "connection," as by following God's word we create a bond in much the same way as children create a good relationship with their parents when they follow their instructions. Should they disobey, it spoils the relationship, although a parent will never stop loving his or her child.
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Raymond
West Hollywood
February 10, 2026
in response to Susie Staples:
Actually it is only because we have free will that we are capable of breaking the commandments. But G-d wanted us to be free, choosing human beings rather than mindless robots Reply
Britani
February 5, 2026
10/10 Reply
Nili Ungar
Southfield
February 5, 2026
8/10 Reply
Deborah
Forest Hills, NY
February 5, 2026
9/10... Seems I wasn't the only one who missed on #8! I went to Yeshivah where I 1st learned the 10 commandments, many moons ago . ... I read the Parshas every year, in which they are contained..... And, I still never knew the stealing pertains to kidnapping!!! Reply
Mori Goldlist
North York, Ontario
February 5, 2026
Embarrassingly, 8/10 ! But I am so happy that the true term "murder" was used as opposed to the misinterpretation "Kill" Thank you ! Reply
Margaret M Wilson
Chicago
February 5, 2026
10 out of 10. Reply
Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
February 5, 2026
My one mistake was in the wording regarding the first one. In the "Valley of Har Sinai " or in "Har Sinai." My assumption was that we were below, then Moshe climbed to get the Aseret H'adibrot. He came down and threw down the first tablets. I though that there was a distance implicated in the sentence do not approach further. Hence, my answer in the valley because we were not allowed to get so near. As for" Kidnapping " is not there in the Torah itself, it is Rashi, and Rashi is a marvel of understandings. Therefore, interpretation are important: of course, kidnapping is the worst of crimes.
Finally, while other groups adopted the Ten, those are changed: In other versions the notion of H' bringing us out of Egypt is deleted.
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Raymond
West Hollywood
February 5, 2026
in response to Feigue Cieplinski:
I do not quite understand why some versions from other cultures of the Ten Commandments would fail to mention that the Jews were freed from slavery in Egypt. Maybe it is considered politically incorrect to even suggest that any of the nations surrounding Israel do not always treat our Jewish people very well.
Now as for the commandment against stealing really only involving a prohibition against kidnapping, I am still stymied by that idea stated by Rashi. For if kidnapping represents the worst kind of stealing, then it is not at all a certain thing that lesser forms of stealing are also prohibited by G-d. But how can that be? Surely the prohibition against all forms of stealing represents one of the core foundations of a just and stable society
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Feigue Cieplinski
Middletown
February 8, 2026
in response to Raymond :
Shalom Raymond;
1.- My take would be that if you give importance Jesus, as in Christianity - to mention only the first that adopted the 10 from the Greek, would have an effect of diminishing their new beliefs. I have not read the Greek version, do you know if in that it says" that I took you out of Egypt."? Or it says just "anochi"?
2.- I wonder if this omission has to do with the notion "am segulah", and by not mentioning Egypt they take away that concept too? NO preferences, in their opinion. 3.- I would argue it has nothing to do with "political correctness," and all to do with jealousy because H' gave us the Torah first. In this way it is erased. Do not steal,. it had to do with decency: " All stealing counts ! Yet, Rashi points out that he worst is taking a human being because that can also lead to murder! Ken?
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Minucha
Chicago
February 5, 2026
I got 9 out of 10 correct. I missed #8. I should have known the answer. Reply
Raymond
West Hollywood
February 6, 2026
in response to Minucha:
Question #8 is the problematic one, so perhaps do not blame yourself for the answer you gave to it Reply
Minucha
Chicago
February 9, 2026
in response to Minucha:
I took this test again & got 10 out of 10 correct. I don't often take a test twice. I wasn't sure my answers were saved the first time because I have been having trouble with my computer. Reply
Yiscah Sarah
Nairobi
February 5, 2026
Love the quiz 😊 8/10 Reply
Deepa Shinde
India
February 5, 2026
4/10 it's ok but next time full confidence okay 👍 Reply
Stephanie Duncan
Tempe
February 5, 2026
I5/10 really need to brush up remembering the ten commandments Reply
Raymond
West Hollywood
February 5, 2026
in response to Stephanie Duncan:
a score of 15 out of 10....not too shabby Reply
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