The Ten Commandments recall the Exodus. You are part of an extended family, the Israelites. It began with Abraham, from ...
The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...
It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...
"It's one of the most important historic artifacts that I've ever handled." In 1913, workers were carrying out excavations prior to the construction of a new railway line in southern Israel when they ...
The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?