Reflection On The Ten Commandments

The most meaningful lectures to me were about the Ten Commandments and how they make Jewish people better in their lives. The Ten Commandments were given to the Jewish people through Moses, from God at Mount Sinai. Since that day, the commandments have been very important to Jewish life. They can be found twice in the Torah. First in chapter twenty of the book of Exodus, and they are then again repeated in chapter five of the book of Deuteronomy. There are slight variations to these repetitions which concerns the fourth commandment, regarding the Shabbat. In Exodus, it reads, “Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy,” however in Deuteronomy it reads “Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy.”

The fact that Shabbat is in the Ten Commandments show us that it is one of the fundamentals of the Jewish religion. It is how Jews and Christians show in

For this to make sense to my parents and grandmother I had to phrase it in context of Christianity, because we are Christian. I asked the three of them how the Ten Commandments have influenced their lives. All three of their answers were similar due to their upbringing which was fairly the same. All three of them gave good responses and it could be summarized to be, The Ten Commandments give us a direction by serving as a compass. People in this chaotic world would find a sense of order, some structure. The Ten Commandments were meant to keep us happy and live peaceful lives. It teaches us that we are all born with a sinful, rebellious nature and we cannot make it to heaven without God 's help, the help being the commandments. Then I asked a friend who was brought up in a Jewish household how the Ten Commandments have influenced his life. His response was almost same, but he said he was taught to look at a way of life and also he has to follow the law codes, the same law codes we went over in