The U.S. Adopts a Tougher Stance toward the Muslim Brotherhood
But it still needs to find a way to combat its non-terrorist activities.
February 2, 2018
What Does “Thou Shalt Not Covet” Mean? And How Can the Torah Prohibit Wanting Something?
The tenth commandment.
In most translations, the tenth commandment of the Decalogue reads, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.” This passage has long troubled Jewish commentators reluctant to accept a prohibition that seems to apply to a feeling rather than action; most have suggested that the commandment is not violated until covetousness is acted upon. Analyzing other uses in the Hebrew Bible of the root, ḥ-m-d, normally rendered as covet, Leonard Greenspoon finds evidence for this reading:
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Setting the Record Straight on Israel’s Deportation of Illegal Immigrants
No refugees are being returned home.
How to Respond to Poland’s New Law Censoring Discussion of the Holocaust
Jews and Poles should try to put the past behind them.
Remembering the Great Israeli Poet Haim Gouri
Bab el-Wad.
What Does “Thou Shalt Not Covet” Mean? And How Can the Torah Prohibit Wanting Something?
The tenth commandment.