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What Do The Ten Commandments Command?
Dr. Martin Lockshin
Thursdays 1:00 pm Eastern
May 4 - 18
The Torah never calls the Ten Commandments “commandments.” A more accurate translation of the
Hebrew name aseret ha-devarim or aseret ha-dibberot is “the…
Famine, exile, dissent, descent, slavery, persecution, death and at last redemption. The Jewish people have crossed the sea – finally believing “in G-d and in Moshe His servant” (Shemot 14:31). They have “been saved from the hand of Egypt” (Shemot 3…
In his categorization of mitzvot, the Rambam lists as the first mitzvah belief in G-d. He begins his monumental code by telling us that “the foundations of foundations and basis of wisdom” is to know that there is a First cause Who created…