Ten Commandments
Tablets with curved tops? Rectangles? Two sides of the same stone?
It is not “exclusionary” to give the Ten Commandments a privileged position in American national life, whose institutions they have done so much to form.
Featured in this week’s Torah portion is the Bible’s most famous teaching, which is less a founding legal code than an ethical paradigm for every. . .
Beyond the distinctive insights offered by each respondent, the overall result is fascinating, not least because the four responses wind up unintentionally but profoundly disagreeing with one another.
Can we, just by reading, vicariously experience the awe of the children at the Mount?
From the Patriarchs and the Family to Sinai and the Nation. A video conversation with Leon R. Kass.
The Orthodox Jew discovers a fascinating intellectual anomaly: a non-rabbinic Jew who approaches the Bible with deep reverence.
A Christian perspective on the Ten Commandments.
Pride, Lust, Technology—and the Bible
Rare is the scholar of politics or of law these days who would think to turn to the Ten Commandments to understand better the hard questions to which liberal democracy gives rise. But Leon Kass’s remarkable exploration of the Decalogue shows that these scholars have neglected a vital resource.
Leon Kass endeavors to make the Decalogue both sensible and livable; on its own terms, it is stark and demanding in the highest degree.
