<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana;">I have no source for any of these thoughts, happy to hear your feedback:</span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><u>How do we know there are 10 Dibros (“Statements/Commandments”)?</u><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> From 3 verses – </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Aseres hadevarim” (Shemos/Ex 34:28, Devarim/Deut 4:13 and 10:4)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. So how do we know what the 10 statements are? </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">There are 14 verses in total. The 14 are divided by 9 breaks into 10 distinct units (but not according to our custom):</font></p></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">I am Hashem; don’t do idolatry.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">No vain oaths.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Shabbos.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Parents.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Murder.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Adultery.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Theft.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">False witness.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Covet neighbor’s house.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Covet neighbor’s wife and other stuff.<o:p></o:p></font></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Our minhag (custom) — to split #1 and combine 9+10 — appears ancient, recorded in Josephus. But does not appear in Chazal exactly. Maybe it is logical that 9+10 should be together, despite the break. But the public leining of the 10 in parshah Yisro sustains the above breaks.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Proof from Chazal: Talmud Kiddushin 31a:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Darash Ulla Raba – Ulla the Great expounded at the entrance to the house of the Nasi: “What is the meaning of the verse, <i>All the kings of the world will acknowledge you, Hashem because they heard the statements of Your mouth </i>(Psalms 138:4)? It does not say <i>the statement of your mouth</i> rather <i>the statement<u>s</u> of your mouth</i>. I.e., when God said “I am Hashem” and “don’t do idolatry”, the nations of the world said, ”He is saying this for his own honor’. But when he said “Honor your parents”<i>, </i>they retracted and acknowledged the first statements.</font></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">It sounds as though the plural “statements” comes to include “Honor” … i.e., the first two statements are not plural, rather they are one statement. Yet at the end, the first two are called “statements” in the plural. Which is it? Perhaps the Gemara (Ulla Raba) is intentionally vague because it is not clear whether or not the first two count as one or two? Or perhaps there is a scribal error and the last line should read, “acknowledged the first statement”.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></font></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Makkos 24a: Clear that “I am” and “Don’t do’ are separate “mitzvoth”.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Shabbos 88b-89a – Gemara lists “I am Hashem” and “don’t do” separately, but not a proof because doesn’t list all 10, and not even in right order. Maybe these are just two aspects of one <i>dibur</i>.<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Shavuos 13a (Rashi)<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Horyos 8a (Rashi)<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Horyos 8b (Rashi) – “I am Hashem” and “don’t do idolatry” are a single mitzvah<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Sanhedrin 99<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Tosefos Taanis 3a –<o:p></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Rashi Sanhedrin 86a<o:p></o:p></font></li></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">It would appear that there is a basis for differentiating between the “10 Commandments” of logic and learning, and the “10 Dibros” that the Sefer Torah tells us were spoken at Sinai. The utterance of the 10 Dibros was not according to the mitzvoth therein, rather according to a separate logic of enumeration and paralleling, a true “horah sha’ah”.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">If we look at the breakdown according to the text of the Torah, conceptually, a new logic is implied.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">“I am Hashem” and “Don’t do idolatry” make sense combined. Similarly, “Don’t murder” fits the understanding of the first five being <i>bein adam l’Makom</i>, for murder violates the principle of <i>tzelem Elokim</i>. But how could the two types of coveting be conceptually differentiated? The only difference I can see is that a house is less personal than wife/stuff: a house is very often inherited – your neighbor maybe grew up there. But he acquired his wife and his stuff, much more personal. (Also, you can pass by a house and not even know whose it is. This is also true, but less likely with a wife or other stuff.) Based on this logic, the latter five now parallel the first five:<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="672" style="width: 7in; margin-left: -8.1pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">I am Hashem (be faithful to Me)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="320" valign="top" style="width: 240.35pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t commit adultery (be faithful to fellow man)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">No vain (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">שוא</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) oaths (misappropriating God’s name)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="320" valign="top" style="width: 240.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t steal (misappropriating property)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Remember Shabbos (bear witness to Creation)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="320" valign="top" style="width: 240.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t bear false (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">שקר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) witness<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Honor parents (basic respect, boundaries)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="320" valign="top" style="width: 240.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t covet his house (basic respect, boundaries)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t murder (<i>tselem Elokim</i>, God’s most personal relationship)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="320" valign="top" style="width: 240.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t covet his wife (<i>ishto k’gufo</i>, a man’s most personal relationship) etc.<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">This enumeration and juxtaposition teaches us: The basic idea of monotheism is faithfulness and loyalty (indeed, this point reverberates throughout the Torah and Prophets: see Ex 20:5, Ex 30:14, Deut 4:24, Deut 5:9, Deut 6:15, Josh 24:19, Jud 8:27 + 33, Jer 2:20, 3:1, 3:6, 3:8, 30:14, Ezek 16:15-41, Ezek 23, Hos 2:4-7, 3:1-3, 4:12-15, 9:1); false oaths are bad because God’s name doesn’t belong to us and using it vainly is like stealing; the basic idea of Shabbos is bearing witness; honoring parents is about respecting God and the concept of boundaries; murder is wrong because it violates God’s most personal intimate relationship with this other human being. The latter is the big chiddush here, because minhag and “common sense” place murder in the side of <i>bein adam l’chaveiro</i> and the ethic is therefore one of violating the victim’s basic rights as a person. By putting it on the<i>bein adam l’Makom</i> side and paring it with coveting the neighbor’s wife, the ethic becomes completely different. God created each person b’tselem Elokim; each person has a very personal purpose to God, and God decides when the person will live and die. When another person plays God and takes that life, he violates that intimate relationship between God and that person, like a man coveting another man’s wife. It’s not like outright adultery, which is the equivalent to idolatry. But it disrespects God’s boundaries.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">In the Mishneh Torah (Deuteronomy), the last two are reversed, rendering a different logic and ethic:<o:p></o:p></font></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="708" style="width: 531pt; margin-left: -0.3in; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><tbody><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">I am Hashem (be faithful to Me)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="356" valign="top" style="width: 267.35pt; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t commit adultery (be faithful to fellow man)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">No vain (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">שוא</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) oaths (misappropriating God’s name)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="356" valign="top" style="width: 267.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t steal (misappropriating property)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Keep Shabbos (remember the purpose of the Exodus, i.e., that it not be in vain)*<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="356" valign="top" style="width: 267.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t bear vain (<span lang="HE" dir="RTL">שוא</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) witness<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Honor parents (basic respect: they represent God)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="356" valign="top" style="width: 267.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; break-after: avoid-page;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t covet his wife (basic respect: she represents him)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr><tr><td width="324" valign="top" style="width: 243pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; border-style: none solid solid; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t murder (respect God’s property)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="28" valign="top" style="width: 20.65pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">=<o:p></o:p></font></p></td><td width="356" valign="top" style="width: 267.35pt; border-style: none solid solid none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">Don’t <i>desire</i> his house etc. (respect his property)<o:p></o:p></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">* see Parshas VaEschanan<o:p></o:p></font></p></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">+++<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Anochi Hashem Elokecha</i> appears only in the Asaras HaDibros, two times: as the One who took you out of Mitzrayim and as the <i>Keil Kana</i>. This is another proof for the suggestion above that <i>Anochi</i> and <i>Lo yiyeh l’cha</i> are a single dibbur.<o:p></o:p></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;">In Sefiras HaOmer we count 32 days of din (judgment) followed by 18 days of rachamim (mercy). This appears to parallel Parshas B’Shalach through the Asaras HaDibros (10 Commandments): “Elokim” 32 times; and Parshas Yisro YHVH 18 times prior to the Asaras HaDibros. .</font></p></div><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 30pt; margin-right: 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 12px;"> </font></p></blockquote></div></body></html>