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There are a few differences between the Exodus and Deuteronomy listing of the Ten Commandments. The most stark differences are in the fourth commandment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1) \u201cRemember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy\u201d in Exodus 20:8 and \u201cKeep the Sabbath Day holy\u201d in Deuteronomy 5:12. \u201cRemembering\u201d is usually connected to the positive mitzvot and \u201cKeeping\u201d to the negative ones. The Midrash also explains that God \u201csaid both words at the same time\u201d (as the well-known Lecha Dodi<\/em> hymn poetically states).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) Exodus: \u201cyou shall not do any work\u2014you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements.\u201d\u00a0 Deuteronomy: \u201cyou shall not do any work\u2014you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.\u201d\u00a0 Exodus lists fewer household residents. Deuteronomy adds more animals and servants. During the actual giving of the Ten Commandments, the people were nomadic with few possessions beyond the gold they received from Egypt. Upon entering the land, the people\u2019s households will have expanded to include many more possessions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3) Exodus: \u201cFor in six days God made heaven and earth and sea\u2014and all that is in them\u2014and then rested on the seventh day; therefore God blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it\u201d (Exodus 5:11). Deuteronomy: \u201cRemember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and your God freed you from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm\u201d (verse 15). Chronologically creation is closer in time to the original giving of the Ten Commandments than it was to the retelling in Deuteronomy. But, obviously, the Israelites in Exodus were just freed as slaves. It would have made more sense to swap the descriptions! Why does Moses have to change this at all?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik explains that these two reasons for Shabbat describe a partnership between the people and God on Shabbat. God created Sabbat by resting on the seventh day. That was the declaration to the people at Sinai. But once God decreed Shabbat (and the holidays) at Sinai, the power shifted to the people to make sure that every seventh day and every holiday was sanctified. That is the result of their freedom from bondage. That is why Moses shifts to the Exodus story in Deuteronomy. God freed the people so that they had the freedom to partner on Shabbat. It is also why that theme is important upon entering the land. With a newfound autonomy, the people must remember that it is now in their power to partner with the omnipresent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Are there women in the book of Deuteronomy? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At first glance, they don\u2019t seem to exist, but if we look closely we realize that they appear in unexpected contexts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first reference to women appears at the end of chapter 3 (verse 19), when the inheritance of land given to the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and half of Menasheh is explained. \u00a0These tribes have been given a portion of land on the east of the Jordan, but before they are allowed to settle it they are commanded to help the rest of the tribes conquer the land on the western side of the Jordan. Their wives, young children, and livestock, however, can settle into the cities while the men go to war. This command explains why women don\u2019t appear frequently in the first few chapters of Deuteronomy: it\u2019s not that there weren\u2019t women among the Israelites, it\u2019s that the beginning of the book is directed at Israelite men, outlining their roles as judges, scouts, and soldiers. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a shift in the narrative at the beginning of chapter 5. Suddenly, Moses turns to \u201c<\/span>all of Israel<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/span> (5:1). \u00a0Moses shares the ten commandments with all members of the nation, including the women. They are commanded to listen to them (<\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>), to learn them, to keep them, and to fulfill them (5:2). They are all identified as those with whom God seals the covenant, \u201cwe who are here, all of us alive today\u201d (5:3). The text concludes: \u201cThese are the words that God spoke to <\/span>your entire congregation<\/span><\/em> at the mountain\u201d (5:19). Here, again, the biblical language is inclusive, it emphasizes that God\u2019s laws are for the entire congregation, not only the men to whom the first chapters of Deuteronomy were addressed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The opening passage of the next chapter retains this inclusive voice: \u201cThis is the commandment, the decrees, and the ordinances that God commands you (plural) to teach you (plural)\u2026\u201d (6:1). The same phrase, <\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>, appears again a few verses later (6:4). The phrase <\/span>shema yisrael<\/span><\/em>, which appears in 5:2 and 6:4, is a call to \u201c<\/span>all of Israel<\/span><\/em>,\u201d the \u201c<\/span>entire congregation<\/span><\/em>.\u201d Read in the context of the previous chapter, the command in 6:4-9 can be understood as addressed to all of Israel, including women. Each individual must love God with all their heart, soul, and means; teach them to one\u2019s children; recite them at all times and places; wrap themselves and their homes in them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This intertextual reading makes the exclusion of women, enslaved people, and children from the commands of Deuteronomy 6:7 all the more scandalous. When we read Deuteronomy 6 in light of Deuteronomy 5, we see that there is a possibility for understanding the commandment more inclusively. <\/span>All of Israel<\/span><\/em>, the <\/span>entire congregation<\/span><\/em>, ought to participate in this all-encompassing worship. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The women in the text aren\u2019t named, but they are there if we choose to see them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Are human beings a species of animal, or are they something categorically different?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Different biblical voices weigh in on this question, among them the creation stories in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3, the exquisite meditation on the natural world in Psalm 8, and Ecclesiastes in his despairing proclamation, \u201cHumankind has no advantage over beasts, for all is vanity\u201d (Eccl 3:19). Again, from Darwin to the present critical moment, the relationship between human beings and animals has stood near the center of environmental thought.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis reach a novel and interesting conclusion on this question via a close investigation of the law of mixed species. The Torah prohibits the farmer from plowing with \u201can ox and an ass together\u201d (Deut 22:10). The rabbis take these animals to stand merely as examples of different species: It is equally prohibited, for example, to yoke an ox and a horse together to a plow. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet, according to the Mishnah (Kil\u2019ayim 8:6), it is permissible for a person to pull a plow alongside an animal. Why should this not also count as impermissible mingling of species? The solution, says the Talmud (Bava Qamma 54b), comes from Deuteronomy 5:14, the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, which mandates Sabbath rest not only for people but for animals. From the equal application of the Sabbath law to people and animals we learn\u2014to paraphrase and elaborate on the Talmud passage following the lead of the Torah Temimah on Deuteronomy 5:14\u2014that human beings are treated as a species of animal for the purpose of rest, and only for the purpose of rest. When it comes to work, human beings are not to be thought of as a species of animal. They are something categorically different, and so the restriction against plowing with mingled species does not apply to the case of a yoke pulled by a human being and an animal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are human beings a species of animal, or are they something categorically different? It depends, we learn. For six days, during the work week, we are humankind and not animals. \u00a0On the Sabbath, when we rest, we are animals of the human kind. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a certain misanthropy encoded into much thinking on the environment and sustainability. How much more various and beautiful the world would be without people! \u00a0Do they not wreak havoc wherever they go? While it is easy to understand and sympathize with this position, and though the voice from the whirlwind (Job 38-41) arguably indulges it, biblical teaching ultimately prohibits misanthropy. There is no getting around the fact that the Bible assigns value, indeed ultimate value, to human life, and one trembles to imagine a Western world without such a moral bedrock. But the above rabbinic teaching, like some others, allows us to nuance this perspective. We work six days so that we may rest on the Sabbath. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are set apart from the natural world for the sake of transforming ourselves into part of it.<\/span>
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The Sabbath (in Hebrew, <\/span>Shabbat<\/span><\/em>) is a religious institution, a memorial to creation, the day on which God Himself rested. But it is also and essentially a political institution. Shabbat is the greatest tutorial in liberty ever devised. Passover tells us how the Israelites won their freedom. Shabbat tells us how they kept it. One day in seven, Jews create a messianic society. It is the day on which everyone, master and slave, employer and employee, even animals, experience unconditional freedom. We neither work nor get others to work, manipulate nor allow ourselves to be manipulated. We may neither buy nor be bought. It is the day on which all hierarchies, all relationships of power are suspended.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shabbat was, of course, the antithesis of Egypt \u2013 the free society as opposed to a society of slaves. Slaves work without rest at the will of their masters. So the first mark of the Israelites\u2019 freedom was a day of rest for everyone:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On it you shall do no work, neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your animals, nor the stranger within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day. (Deuteronomy 5:14-15)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Shabbat was also a way of enacting, while on the way, the journey\u2019s end, the destination. Slavery was not immediately abolished; it existed in most parts of the world until the nineteenth century. Even today there are lesser forms of servitude \u2013 insecurity, workaholism, the hundred stresses and anxieties of everyday life. And as Marx never tired of telling us, slaves get used to their chains. So, within time itself, everyone had to experience unconditioned freedom so as never to lose the love of liberty, even though as yet it lasts only one day in seven. Jews never lost those two memories: the taste of affliction on Pesach, the taste of freedom on Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shabbat is also a way of living out another idea, the concept of possession without ownership which is at the heart of Judaism\u2019s social and environmental ethic. Every week, for a day, Jews live not as creators but creations. On Shabbat the world belongs to God, not us. We renounce our mastery over nature and the animals. We see the earth as a thing of independent dignity and integrity. We become God\u2019s guests, as Judah Halevi put it, recognizing the limits of human striving. But above all else, Shabbat is covenantal time, the working out of Judaism\u2019s vision of a society of equal dignity and hope.<\/span>
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Deuteronomy chapter 5 is a central part of the book of Deuteronomy, in that it holds the Ten Commandments. The Deuteronomistic version of the Ten Commandments, that is. I find the differences between the Ten Commandments in Exodus chapter 20 to the Ten Commandments in our chapter fascinating. I will focus on one of the commandments today, that shines some light on the meaning of Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The laws of Shabbat are widely debated all over the Jewish world. The traditions will vary depending on one\u2019s denomination. But what about the <\/span>reason<\/span><\/i> for Shabbat? The Torah gives us two different reasons for Shabbat. One is in Exodus chapter 20 verse 11: \u201cFor in six days the LORD made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We find a different reason in Deuteronomy chapter 5 verses 14-15. One must keep the Shabbat \u201cso that your male and female slave may rest as you do. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt [...] therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.\u201d In Exodus, the Shabbat exists to remind us of the creation of the world. In Deuteronomy, the Shabbat exists to remind us that we were slaves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This difference in the reason for Shabbat comes from a difference in philosophy. A difference that creates two distinct Shabbat experiences. The Exodus Shabbat asks us to remember the creation, and just as God rested on the seventh day, so should we. In a sense, then, the goal of the Shabbat is to be more like God. The Deuteronomy Shabbat asks us to give rest to the slaves and remember that we used to be slaves. Here, the goal of Shabbat is for the slave to be more like us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What interesting perspectives of life we get from these two Shabbatot! One reminds us that we are almost gods in this world. As the Psalmist says: \u201cthat You have made him [man] little less than divine\u201d (Psalms 8:6). The other reminds us that we are just moments away from becoming slaves ourselves. As the same Psalmist says: \u201cwhat is man that You have been mindful of him\u201d (Psalms 8:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Looking at these two different philosophies of Shabbat, it seems like they are both based on the same idea; That Shabbat has an equalizing quality to it. For twenty-five hours every week, all the creatures of the world are required to stop and rest. 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Before relaying the Ten Commandments to B'nei Yisrael in this Chapter, Moses is careful to remind them that with these commandments God sealed a covenant with each and every one of them. But Moses then proceeds to contextualize the commandments from their original wording as we read in Parshat Yitro. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the Maharal, the version that\u2019s told here was framed in Moses\u2019 own words, in a way that he believed would match the recipients\u2019 capacity to understand them. Two of the many differences between the two tellings of the Ten Commandments are in the form of \u00a0additional phrases. To the commandment of honoring one\u2019s parents \u201cin order to lengthen your days on the land\u201d Moses added \u201cin order for it to be good for you on the land.\u201d And to the commandment to not be jealous of your fellow\u2019s house, wife, servants, animals or anything that belongs to him, Moses added \u201chis field\u201d to the list. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The addition of experiencing \u00a0\u201cgood in your land\u201d and not being jealous of your fellow\u2019s fields would have fallen on deaf ears if specified to the Bnei Yisrael in the Book of Exodus, who had only just come out of Egypt with no capacity to think about having their own fields, never mind their own land. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses, being the astute leader he was, recognized that part of his role as the messenger of these commandments from God was to package them according to how they could best be consumed. And lest we think that, God forbid, Moses transgressed by adding to God\u2019s words, his retelling of the commandments to the B'nei Yisrael is immediately followed by God telling B'nei Yisrael to return to their tents while Moses stays behind to receive all of the details of these commandments. This leaves us, perhaps, to understand that any apparent variation of the original commandments in this telling are innate within the details, and Moses is merely extracting the right version at the right time for the right generation.<\/span>
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I am your God! And you should have no more<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t make a sculpture that looks just like Me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t bow to other gods, for I deplore<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>All worship that smacks of idolatry. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And God almighty, don\u2019t swear in my name<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I will not cleanse you if you swear in vain<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Observe the Sabbath, so it\u2019s not the same<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As weekdays. From all work you must abstain. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Give honor to your parents \u2013 mom and dad.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For if you do, you\u2019ll live long and fare well<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t murder. Don\u2019t be an adulterous cad<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t steal, don\u2019t come to court and untruths tell. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your neighbor\u2019s wife may be a pretty lass<\/span>
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At the great climax of the Mount Sinai moment, the Israelites are gathered around the thunderous mountain, Moses is at the pinnacle, and God is about to make an offer of a set of guidelines, instructions, and prohibitions that will transform human life forever. Just before launching into the specific commandments of the Top Ten, however, God makes a general observation: \u201cHere, O Israel, the laws and rules that I proclaim to you this day! Study them and observe them faithfully (Deut. 5:1).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, my wife is a lawyer, so I have a lifetime experience of observing lawyers close up. And I can tell you that she spends a good deal of time looking up laws so she can make arguments on behalf of the legal outcome she thinks is right. But she never pulls open a book of laws and statutes to study the laws for their own sake. She never recites the rules as a kind of spiritual mantra, or to center herself. She never joins with others to learn laws together as a community building or values deepening exercise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet Jews do that with our laws all the time. In a brilliant book, <\/span>Halakhah: The Rabbi Idea of Law<\/span><\/em>, Chaim Saiman documents the many ways that halakhah (often translated in shorthand as \u201cJewish Law\u201d) functions as much more than simply black-letter law (what you must do or refrain from doing). Halakhah invites meditative contemplation, study as a form of ritual discipline, as an exploration of theology and faith, or as a source of values and aggada beyond any behavioral outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That rich perspective is rooted in our Torah verse: we are enjoined not only to observe, but also to study them. Study is itself a mitzvah and a value, separate from implementation as behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Owning this sense of the many ways that halakhah grounds Jewish life offers a way to understand our pluralism differently too. In this light, whether or not Jews consider themselves bound by halakhic norms, if they are learning the sources, meditating on them, expounding insights and values from them, then they are engaged halakhically. So maybe the many Orthodox, traditional, and liberal approaches to Judaism can celebrate the ways that halakhah unites us, not on a behavioral level, but in the realms of meaning making, spiritual values, contemplation, and morality. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the level of behavior, we may sometimes part ways. But in the realm of vision, purpose, shared narratives and frameworks, all Judaisms are halakhic. \u201cStudy them\u201d and \u201cobserve them!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Why, asks R. Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), does God begin the Decalogue by reminding us that God \u201ctook us out from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage\u201d (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6) and end by admonishing us not to covet? R. Heschel suggests that God wants us to learn something critical about freedom: Although God has liberated us from externally-imposed slavery, the task of liberating ourselves from internal slavery is given over to us. Heschel writes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nothing is as hard to suppress as the will to be a slave to one\u2019s own pettiness. Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty. Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem\u2014how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In a moment of eternity, while the taste of redemption was still fresh to the former slaves, the people of Israel were given the Ten Words, the Ten Commandments. In its beginning and end, the Decalogue deals with the liberty of man. The first Word\u2014<\/span>I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage<\/span><\/em>\u2014 reminds him that his outer liberty was given to him by God, and the tenth Word\u2014<\/span>Thou shalt not covet!<\/span><\/i>\u2014reminds him that he himself must achieve his inner liberty\u201d (Heschel, <\/span>The Sabbath, <\/span><\/i>pp. 89-90)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The words of the tenth commandment challenge us to purify our inner life, both for its own sake and in order that we not deprive others of what is rightfully theirs. We are taught not to pressure other people to let go of what they have, not to scheme to acquire their things, and not even to fantasize about possessing what they do. We are warned about the dangers of greed, especially when coupled with the power to inflict great harm. And we are reminded that real, deep freedom is not a one-time gift but a hard-won struggle. God gives us political freedom at least in part so that we can embark on achieving inner freedom as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In our chapter, we find the obverse side of the revelatory coin we first observed in Exodus 20. The conditions and circumstances of <\/span>matan torah<\/span><\/em> are repeated, as is the Decalogue - literally, ten utterances - itself. (<\/span>See our previous comments <\/span><\/a>to Exodus 24.) The common features include a reference to ten utterances and their inscription on two stone tablets. Here, we would like to make an observation on versification: the division of the text into individual verses. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In most rabbinic Bibles, the number of verses in each week\u2019s portion is listed at its end, as are the number of verses in each book of the Pentateuch, and, finally, at the end of Deuteronomy 34, the total number of verses in the entire Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to these traditions, the portion of Va\u2019etchanan, which incorporates our chapter, consists of 118 verses<\/span>. The problem is that if we tally the number of verses from Deut. 3:23, where it begins, through Deut. 7:11, where it concludes, the total that emerges is 122.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did we lose four verses?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is contained in the versification of the Decalogue. Careful scrutiny of the printed text shows that, on the one hand, some of the ten utterances are divided into more than one verse while, on the other hand, others are crammed into a single verse. \u201cI am the Lord your God\u201d and \u201cYou shall have no other deities\u201d are combined, the Sabbath is divided into 4 verses, and all five \u201cThou shalt nots\u201d are combined into one.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The explanation derives from the difference between the way the text is read privately and publicly; one uses a versification called \u201clower\u201d while the other utilizes \u201cupper\u201d versification, yielding the disparate results both here and in Exodus 20.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A concise description of these two types of versification can be found <\/span>in an essay on Torah reading for Shavuot <\/span><\/a>by Dr. Joseph Ofer of Bar-Ilan University.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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At the beginning of our chapter we are told that: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the laws and rules that I proclaim to you this day! Study them and observe them faithfully! The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. It was not with our fathers that the Lord made this covenant, but with us, the living, every one of us who is here today\u201d (Deuteronomy 5:1-3). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

If God did not make a covenant with our forefathers at Horeb (Mount Sinai), then with whom did God make His covenant? The Midrash (Midrash Tehillim 8:3 and parallels) addresses this question by describing the situation as a dramatic dialogue between God and the Israelites about to receive the Torah: At Sinai, all the assembled Israelites became responsible guarantors for one another (<\/span>kol yisrael areyvim zeh la-zeh<\/span><\/em>, see Sifra\u2019 Behuqotai 7:5). When God was about to give the Torah to them, He required them to provide guarantors that they would fulfill the commandments in the Torah. The People of Israel first offered their forefathers. But God said: They are already obligated to Me and it waits to be seen if they themselves will fulfill their own commitments. Rather bring me guarantors, who as yet have no outstanding obligation to me. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Israelites responded: Who could possibly be free of any obligation to you?! God answered: The children! Immediately, the Israelites brought the infants from the breasts of their mothers. They even brought their pregnant wives, whose wombs became like glass so that the unborn fetuses could see the Holy One, blessed be He and speak with Him. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God said to them: You are to be the responsible guarantors for the obedience of your parents. If they do not fulfill the commandments of the Torah, you will be liable for their transgressions. Without hesitation, the unborn babies assented to each of the Ten Commandments. God then said: From your mouths I will now give the Torah to your parents, as it says: \u201cOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings, You have established strength (\u2018Oz)\u201d (Psalms 8:3). And the word \u2018Oz refers to Torah, as it says: \u201cThe Lord will give strength (\u2018Oz) to His people\u201d (Psalms 29:11). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

For this reason, when the Israelites transgress the Torah, it is their children who are apprehended, as it says: \u201cBecause you have forgotten the Torah of your God, I will forget your children, I too\u201d (Hosea 4:6). What does \u201cI too\u201d here imply? It means: To this very day, God Himself is saddened when Jewish parents and their children absent themselves from keeping the commandments of the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cYou shall have no other gods besides Me. \u00a0You shall not make unto yourself a statue, a picture of anything \u00a0of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, of in the waters beneath the earth. \u00a0You shall not bow down to them or worship them \u2026..\u201d (Deuteronomy 5:7-9). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I came to paint God\u2019s portrait. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But where would I find the colors?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After entering the Palace grounds, I looked at the royal gardens<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The light green of spring grass in Tiberias,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The dark green of the ocean near Haifa after sunset,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The bright green of a feather from a peacock in Kibbutz Sa\u2019ad. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I looked into a courtyard in Zefat<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The pale sky-blue of the synagogue walls,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The dark blue of the stripes on the <\/span>tallit<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>Worn by a <\/span>lamed-vovnik<\/span><\/i> as he silently prayed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I looked into the future of Israel<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The purple of the capes adorning King David\u2019s grandchildren<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As they solemnly parade through the streets of Jerusalem,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Marching slowly to be anointed at their coronation. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I looked into the Torah<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The dark red from the blood of the sacrifices in <\/span>Leviticus<\/span><\/i>,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The bright red of the rubies on the breast-plate<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of the high-priest in the <\/span>Book of Exodus<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I looked at the <\/span>tzaddikim<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The soft brown of their eyes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When they turn to the beggars of Beer-Sheva,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Then speak to them and shake their hands. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I looked into my own soul<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The soft yellow of my infant daughter\u2019s hair,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The bright yellow of dreams I dream while resting<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On the sand of a Tel-Aviv beach under the midsummer sun.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But these colors were not enough. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

So I looked at the land promised to my ancestors<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And placed on my palette<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Not only the orange of citrus fruits in the orchards near Rechovot,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>But also the gray of the clouds above <\/span>Mt. Herzl<\/span><\/i>
\r\n<\/span><\/i>And the black of the night sky above <\/span>Yad VaShem<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And after I spent generations painting the portrait,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Behold my picture: <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A canvas<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Completely covered<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>White.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":107896,"alt":"","title":"-631dd4ac9c5b7--631dd4ac9c5b8deut5-colors 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  1. Hear, O Israel<\/em> (verse 1). After we heard yesterday \u201cIsrael, hear!,\u201d today we get the phrase in the more familiar order, which by the way, will pop up again three times in the next few days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Just you<\/em>. With whom was the covenant made? With the generation that came out of Egypt - or their children? Check out the commentaries on verse 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Remember and observe, <\/span>shamor vezachor<\/span><\/em>. These two verbs used to describe the relationship with Shabbat in Exodus and Deuteronomy have become an eternal couple.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Shortcut<\/em>. The two tablets appear in verse 19. Are they given right away? The answer will be apparent four days from now (Deut. 9).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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