Writing
Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments and Ourselves
Even people who claim not to be “religious” will generally maintain that they do observe the Ten Commandments. Why is it that these ten statements, thousands of years old, continue to have such a special hold on us?
Midrash vaYosha
Rachel S. Mikva undertakes a close examination of Midrash vaYosha , a medieval rabbinic text which explicates the Song at the Sea (Ex 15:1-18) and the events of the exodus from Egypt leading up to that climactic moment.