Good Morning. “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me." (Exodus 20:5) In this verse there arises a...

Good Morning. “You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me." (Exodus 20:5) The Hebrew word translated as...

Good Morning. “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." (Exodus 20:3-4) Let us consider that if...

Good Morning. And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." (Exodus 20:1-2) As I have mentioned previously, Judaism believes that this is the first of the Ten Commandments and...

Good Morning. And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." (Exodus 20:1-2) No doubt by design, the commandments given to us from Mount Sinai are categorized into two sections....

Good Morning. And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." (Exodus 20:1-2) In Hebrew, what we commonly refer to as the Ten Commandments is called the Ten Words. In fact, the...

Good Morning. And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the Lord, and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out against them.” (Exodus 19:21-22)...

Good Morning. Then the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. (Exodus 19:20) It is interesting that the text tells us that the LORD descended upon the mountain and that ...

Good Morning. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. (Exodus 19:19) As I shared yesterday, the sound of the shofar was used to announce God's arrival upon Mount Sinai and to herald the...

Good Morning. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice. (Exodus 19:19) The appearance of the Almighty upon Sinai was announced by the sounding of the shofar. This is very interesting for...

Good Morning. Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. (Exodus 19:16) As I...

Good Morning. Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. (Exodus 19:16) The...