The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments comprise a text that changed the world! They are also central to our relationship with God as being the covenantal text of our encounter at Sinai. As such, it is not surprising that some people stand for their public reading. This minhag has proved to be very controversial over the millennia but, notwithstanding fierce opposition, it refuses not disappear! In this shiur, we will look at this minhag, together with other halachic and hashkafic issues surrounding the Ten commandments.