Archive: February 2025

Parshat Yitro: The Ten Commandments: Our Central Text?

Posted on February 13, 2025

If you come to Shabbat morning services this weekend, wear good shoes, because when the Ten Commandments are read from the Torah scroll, we will stand for the entire reading. Why? Like so many other Jewish traditions, standing for the Decalogue has been controversial since it began hundreds of years ago. The rabbis who dealt Continue Reading »