Sentence examples for that commandment from inspiring English sources

"When I started in 1982," said Phil Jacobs, the editor of Washington Jewish Week, "there was an 11th commandment — 'Thou shalt not air thy dirty laundry.' " He learned that commandment in Baltimore, writing about the high percentage of Jews in a treatment program for compulsive gambling.

That commandment has produced reams of rabbinic commentary.

"Today, adhering to that commandment would be a criminal act," Mr. Gottfried said.

Some camera customers fear the culprit is closer to home, breaking that commandment of the cul-de-sac, Do Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Flat-Screen TV.

Following that commandment meant acquiring some new clothes, some of them secondhand, since the Ivy style, as it was then sometimes called, had not yet penetrated as far as Kansas City.

His narrative - lyrical, swaggering, urgent, with the odd telltale twist of Gallic syntax - keeps resolutely in the present tense, yet it is impossible not to find portents in his descriptions of these contemporary towers of Babel, built 'in total disregard of the commandment, "Thou shalt not try to reach the clouds".' Petit himself had been rebelling against that commandment since his youth.

Surely, this commandment that I command you today is not beyond your understanding, nor is it distant.

Like other "inactivists," Dr. Reiss holds that the commandment to circumcise should be updated.

Don Cognasso will tell you that this commandment prohibits envy, which is certainly an ugly thing.

Ofra's rabbi even issued a religious edict that the commandment to settle the land overrides the prohibition on making non-Jewish employees work on the Sabbath, so that construction workers could build round the clock.

The Catechism explains that this commandment regulates worldly goods, and forbids unjustly taking, using or damaging those that belong to someone else.