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332: The Ten Commandments

2025/4/20
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Amy
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Christine
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David Ellis Dickerson
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Derek
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Hassan
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Haya Lipschitz
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Ira Glass
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Jack Hitt
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Lynn Brown
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Nadie
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Sarah Koenig
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Shalom Auslander
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Ira Glass: 我认为之所以有这么多不同版本的十诫,是因为十诫是传达思想的完美方式。它既足够全面,让你感觉获得了完整的视角,同时又易于管理,只有十条。圣经中的诫命与这些模仿诫命不同,它关乎更基本的事情,如孝敬父母、谋杀、撒谎和想要我们没有的东西。这些是存在于我们生活中的原始事物。 Shalom Auslander: 我从小被告知我的名字与上帝的名字相同,这给我带来了许多困扰。我必须小心翼翼地使用我的名字,不能在不洁的地方说,也不能随便写。这让我感到既荣幸又困扰,因为我既是神圣的,又因此失去了许多自由。后来,当我知道别人也面临同样的困境时,我感到既失望又嫉妒,因为我不想与他人分享这份特殊的负担。 Jack Hitt: 我小时候因为在墙上涂鸦而被父亲严厉训斥,他认为我的行为损害了家族的名誉。多年后,我才发现我的兄弟姐妹们也曾因类似的行为受到同样的训斥。这让我意识到,父亲的那番话只是一种惯用的说辞,但他对家族名誉的重视却深深地影响了我们。

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This chapter explores various modern interpretations of the Ten Commandments, ranging from miners' rules during the California Gold Rush to etiquette guidelines for cell phone use and math teachers. It highlights the adaptability of the Ten Commandments' framework across diverse contexts.
  • Different versions of the Ten Commandments exist, reflecting their application to various professions and situations.
  • The structure of ten commandments provides a comprehensive yet manageable framework.

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For Easter weekend — and the end of Passover! — stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments.

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  • Host Ira Glass reads from the Ten Commandments. Not the original Ten Commandments, but some of the newer, lesser-known ones. There's the Miner's Ten Commandments of 1853, the Ten Commandments of Umpiring, and the Ten Commandments for Math Teachers — just to name a few. (4 minutes)
  • Commandments One, Two and Three: As a boy in religious school, Shalom Auslander is informed that his name, Shalom, is one of the names of God, and so he must be very careful not to take his own name in vain. (9 minutes)
  • Commandment Four: Six houses of worship in six different cities, each with its own way of honoring the Sabbath. (3 minutes)
  • Commandment Five: When Jack Hitt was 11, he did the worst thing his father could have imagined. Neither Jack nor his four siblings will ever forget the punishment. (6 minutes)
  • Commandment Six: Alex Blumberg talks to Lt. Col. Lyn Brown, an Army Reserve chaplain who served two tours in Iraq. Brown talks about what "thou shalt not kill" means to soldiers on the battlefield. (6 minutes)
  • Commandment Seven: In the book of Matthew, Jesus says that looking lustfully at a woman is like committing adultery in your heart. Contributor David Dickerson was raised as an evangelical Christian, and for many years tried not to have a single lustful thought. (9 minutes)
  • Commandment Eight: Ira talks to a waiter named Hassan at Liebman's Deli in the Bronx about some audacious thefts he's witnessed in his years in the restaurant business. (3 minutes)
  • Commandment Nine: Chaya Lipschutz wanted to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger. But to save a stranger's life, she had to break the commandment against lying. And the person she had to lie to was her mother. Chaya talked to Sarah Koenig. (8 minutes)
  • Commandment Ten: Ira talks to seventh-graders about the things they covet most. (4 minutes)

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