This is Torah Talk for the week of January 16th, 2022
Ex. 20:21 [24] Make for Me an altar of earth … 22 And if you make for Me an altar of stones …
Is this anticlimactic paragraph the end of the Ten Commandments? Is it the beginning of the Covenant Code? And why does it matter?
This week’s handout: 17 Yitro 5782
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Tags: Book of the Covenant, Covenant Code, Decalogue, Exodus 20, Jeffrey Tigay, Nahum Sarna, Ten Commandments, William H. C. Propp
The Bible Guy 
January 25, 2022 at 1:04 PM |
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January 26, 2022 at 9:43 AM |
Michael,
About William Propp’s comment that “the very act of stone-shaping (psl) is suspect, since the same art can produce an idol (pesel),” he seems to have in mind Exodus 20:3: “לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה לְךָ פֶסֶל”.
Justin
January 26, 2022 at 9:49 AM |
Yes, certainly. My point was that this term is NOT used with regard to the stones for the altar – which one would think they WOULD do if that was the point they wanted to make.