Ten commandments

Shavuot reflections: Media falsehoods show the importance of the Ninth Commandment - editorial

On Shavuot, Tucker Carlson’s Israeli interview highlights the danger of false witness, spreading falsehoods about Israel and ignoring the Ninth Commandment.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Tucker Carlson speaks during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, US December 18, 2025.
US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.

The Epstein scandals and the collapse of moral restraint - opinion

Trust in today's world feels increasingly fragile, and Judaism offers hope that societies can recover not by lowering standards to match disappointment, but by reaffirming religious values.

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
The God one seeks is found precisely in the confusing, unclear place.

Parashat Yitro: Illuminating the fog

Moses understood that genuine service of God is not found in thunder and lightning but rather in the place of fog, confusion, and lack of clarity.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
The slab displaying the Ten Commandments rests just north of the Capitol in Austin, Texas.

US appeals court to reconsider Louisiana's Ten Commandments law it struck down

Louisiana's law required the display of posters or framed versions of the Ten Commandments in K-12 schools and state-funded colleges.

|ByREUTERS

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022ByAARON REICH
Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

Shavuot: Judaism's 10 Commandments are still relevant today - opinion

As we celebrate Shavuot, and the 3,335th anniversary of receiving the Torah, I would like to revisit these commandments and examine their messages.

JUNE 5, 2022BySTEWART WEISS
THE CONSTRUCTIVE work we do during the week that activates and elevates our Shabbat experience (near Beit Shemesh).

Yitro and understanding financial commandments - opinion

In honor of this week’s Torah portion, here are eight commandments of wealth building.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByAARON KATSMAN
STATUE of the Ten Commandments is seen after it was installed on the grounds of the state Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas in June.

Parashat Yitro: Right and wrong

Without analyzing each of the commandments separately, we can understand something profound tracing the motion from God to neighbor.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByDAVID WOLPE
REMBRANDT'S MOSES with the Ten Commandments

Parashat Yitro: The peasant and the princess

The Torah and commandments given at Mount Sinai reveal the deepest secret to us: how to live a complete life.

JANUARY 20, 2022ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

Parashat Yitro: Can you forbid wanting?

FEBRUARY 4, 2021ByDAVID WOLPE
MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments is depicted in this 1659 painting by Rembrandt

Whatever happened to the Ten Commandments?

If the sages considered the Ten Commandments so important, why did they eliminate them from the daily prayers?

MAY 27, 2020ByDAVID GOLINKIN
‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

Religion, civil law, and love - watch Matan's Pre-Shavuot program live

Matan, a pioneer in the field of advanced Torah learning for women for over 30 years, presents a special day of learning online

MAY 25, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
STUDENTS LEARN together in the Matan Beit Midrash

Honor your parents, the Bible’s hardest commandment

Gratitude is the highest Jewish value, the mountain’s summit of virtue.

APRIL 1, 2020BySHMULEY BOTEACH
‘Gratitude is the highest Jewish value, the mountain’s summit of virtue.’

More of the Ten Commandments of Parenting – revisited

Part II: The last six

MARCH 12, 2020By DR. BATYA L. LUDMAN
‘KEEP YOUR promises. Say what you mean and mean what you say.