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Across the Lady, the Ten Commandments have become a source of creativity and controversy, whether in judge rulings, in film and books, or as a religious icon gracing houses of worship of every denomination. But what do they really signify? Relating to polls, not even half of all Americans can even name more than four of them. For the majority of us, agnostics and faithful likewise, they are relegated to the level of symbolic, their teachings basically forgotten. In European life today, the Ten Commandments are just about everywhere - except where we need them most. In The Ten Commandments, David Hazony offers a robust new look at our most venerable moral text. Combining a brand new reading of the Bible's most riveting reviews with a fearless exploration of what ails society today, Hazony implies that the Ten Commandments are not just a set of obscure laws but the encapsulation of a very important, relevant approach to life. The Ten Commandments starts with a daring say: Although they have become a universally recognizable symbol of biblically structured religion, they are not, firmly speaking, a religious text. Rather than addressing beliefs or mystical realms, they contain a coherent prescription for how to make a much better world. At their primary stands what Hazony calling the "spirit of redemption", which he explains as one of the two basic religious components of European civilization. While the Greeks provided us the "spirit of reason", instructing that people should be free to explore and communicate our views, the nature of redemption instructs that every person can, and really should, act to increase the world. This nature come to us from traditional Israel and has stood at the heart of the greatest social movements in our history.
