Good Morning. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God." (Exodus 20:8-10) What does it mean to "remember" the Sabbath day? Is it merely call to mind that the...

Good Morning. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain." (Exodus 20:7) Growing up, I was always told that to take the name of the LORD in vain was to curse while invoking the word,...

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) Those that hate Him and who risk...

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...