Ten commandments

US appeals court to reconsider Louisiana's Ten Commandments law it struck down

Louisiana's law required the display of posters or framed versions of the Ten Commandments in K-12 schools and state-funded colleges.

|ByREUTERS
The slab displaying the Ten Commandments rests just north of the Capitol in Austin, Texas.
Tiltan – The College of Design and Visual Communication

"You Shall Not Covet": Tiltan graduates interpret the Ten Commandments through graphic design

Tiltan Haifa’s Graphic Design Department presents a graduation exhibition where students share personal, modern interpretations of the Ten Commandments. Showing on the rooftop Aug 7–Nov 6.

|ByMEITAL SHARABI/MAARIV
Another biblical name for Shavuot is Yom HaBikkurim (Day of the First Fruits), referring to the joyful pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where the Israelites offered up baskets of their first ripe fruits and bread baked from the newly harvested wheat.

The many faces of Shavuot harvest, revelation, and tradition

The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with trees and shrubs.

|ByRONALD EISENBERG
Texas legislature passes bill mandating Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

Texas legislature passes bill mandating Ten Commandments in public school classrooms

Critics argue it infringes the Constitution's separation of church and state and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Parashat Yitro: Right and wrong

Without analyzing each of the commandments separately, we can understand something profound tracing the motion from God to neighbor.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByDAVID WOLPE
REMBRANDT'S MOSES with the Ten Commandments

Parashat Yitro: The peasant and the princess

The Torah and commandments given at Mount Sinai reveal the deepest secret to us: how to live a complete life.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

Parashat Yitro: Can you forbid wanting?

FEBRUARY 4, 2021ByDAVID WOLPE
MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments is depicted in this 1659 painting by Rembrandt

Whatever happened to the Ten Commandments?

If the sages considered the Ten Commandments so important, why did they eliminate them from the daily prayers?

MAY 27, 2020ByDAVID GOLINKIN
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

Religion, civil law, and love - watch Matan's Pre-Shavuot program live

Matan, a pioneer in the field of advanced Torah learning for women for over 30 years, presents a special day of learning online

MAY 25, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
STUDENTS LEARN together in the Matan Beit Midrash

Honor your parents, the Bible’s hardest commandment

Gratitude is the highest Jewish value, the mountain’s summit of virtue.

APRIL 1, 2020BySHMULEY BOTEACH
‘Gratitude is the highest Jewish value, the mountain’s summit of virtue.’

More of the Ten Commandments of Parenting – revisited

Part II: The last six

MARCH 12, 2020By DR. BATYA L. LUDMAN
‘KEEP YOUR promises. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Jewish fundamentals: Is the Torah divine or human in origin?

Remove God from the Ten Commandments and you have nothing more than ten suggestions.

APRIL 18, 2019ByDENNIS PRAGER
MIDDLE STREET Synagogue, Brighton, England.

Ancient Christian manuscripts digitized at monastery beneath Mount Sinai

The monastery lies at the foot of Mount Sinai, by tradition the site where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

APRIL 17, 2019ByREUTERS
Tourists watch the sunrise and pray outside a church on the summit of Mount Moses, near the city of Saint Catherine, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt, December 9, 2015

Who’s your daddy?

Whenever considering withholding information, the most important consideration is “why?” Is it to benefit the one keeping the secret, or is it truly for the benefit of the one being kept in the dark?

JANUARY 31, 2019ByBARRY LEFF
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