Peretz Rodman
Jerusalem Post
05-20-1999
The Ten Commandments - or, literally, "The Ten Pronouncements," as Prof. Reuven Hammer translates aseret ha-dibbrot - are accorded a privileged status among the passages of the Torah. It has become the common, if not universal, custom to stand during their recitation in the synagogue, whether during Parshat Yitro in Exodus or Parshat Va-etchanan in Deuteronomy, as part of the annual cycle or during the Torah reading on Shavuot. Representation of the two tablets on which they were written, often decorated with the opening words of each ...

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