The Elliot Resnick Show

Rav Hirsch on the Ten Commandments

Elliot Resnick Episode 51

Ever wonder why the first tablet of the Ten Commandments begins with a mitzvah of the mind and ends with a mitzvah of action while the second tablet does the very opposite?  Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) offers an intriguing explanation.