[Avodah] Asseres Hadibros

[Akiva Miller]

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R' Micha Berger wrote:
› Taam Elyon has one sof pasuq per diberah.

and R' Arie Folger concurred:
> Indeed. That is literally what the Ta'am Elyon is for,
> using te'amim above the letters for not pausing until the
> end of every dibberah

This makes sense, and I'm sure that both of you heard/learned this from
someone. But so far, no one has pointed to any sefer which says so.

In sharp contrast, R' Jay F. ("Yaakov") Shachter cites Ibn Ezra on Devarim
Perek 5 as endorsing the view that "Anochi..." is NOT the first, and that
the ninth and tenth are "Lo Sachmod Beis" and "Lo Sachmod Eishes".

(Note that it may be difficult to find this Ibn Ezra. This is partially
because the numbering of these pesukim is inconsistent from publisher to
publisher, surely a result of the "Taam Elyon vs Taam Tachton" tension. But
also, having looked for it in my chumashim, I'm not sure that this comment
is clearly labeled with a specific Dibbur Hamas'chil. In any case, rather
than me quoting RJFYS's posted translation, everyone can find it online at
https://mg.alhatorah.org/Full/Devarim/5/17 )

Related information:

Wikipedia has a useful table showing eight different ways of counting The
Ten. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Religious_traditions

The count which is most familiar to us, in which "Anochi" is #1 and the "Lo
Sachmod"s are combined to be #10, is the fourth in that table, labeled
"Talmud". Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not tell me *where* the Talmud
expresses this view.

The view of Ibn Ezra, where "Anochi" is not counted, and "Lo Sachmod" are
separate as #9 amd #10, is what Wikipedia called "Lutheran".

The view of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (on pages 529-531 of his new Chumash,
which is what caused me to start this thread), in which "Lo Sachmod" is
united as #10, but "Lo Yihyeh" and "Lo Saaseh" are separated as #2 and #3,
conforms to what Wikipedia labels as "Septuagint".

Akiva Miller
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