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Why does "Lo Sachmod" (do not covet) rank as the most serious of the Ten Commandments? The shiur reframes coveting not as lust but as domination—the power-driven need to control what belongs to others. Honoring parents (the Fifth Commandment) is the Torah (תורה)'s antidote: children who learn their proper place at home will not grow into bullies who dominate peers.
Rabbi Zweig opens by addressing the contemporary epidemic of bullying in schools and promises to trace its roots and offer a Torah (תורה)-based solution. The analysis centers on Parshas Yisro and the Aseres Hadibros (Ten Commandments), particularly the horizontal reading of the tablets described by Rashi (רש"י) in Shir Hashirim, which pairs the Fifth Commandment (honoring parents) with the Tenth (Lo Sachmod—do not covet). The shiur poses four core questions: (1) What is the connection between honoring parents and Lo Sachmod in the horizontal reading? (2) Why does Lo Sachmod prohibit coveting a neighbor's wife when adultery is already forbidden in the Seventh Commandment? (3) How can the Torah regulate an internal feeling like coveting (the Ibn Ezra's famous question)? (4) Why do the Rishonim—Rabbeinu Bachaye and the Meiri—insist that Lo Sachmod is the most serious of all Ten Commandments, even more than Shabbos (שבת) or belief in God?
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Parshas Yisro (Aseres Hadibros - Ten Commandments)
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