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centered on the Ten Commandments. This image portrays the stone tablets on
which the ten commandments were written in Hebrew in the book of exodus (Exodus
34: 27-35) and reads as follows: Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write down
these words, for in accordance with them I have made a covenant with you and
with Israel." So Moses stayed there (Mount Sinai) with the Lord for forty
days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he
wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. As Moses
came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his
hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he
conversed with the Lord. The
ten commandments were the covenant obligations to a way of life that God had
enjoined on the Israelites through Moses, with the promise on His part to make
the Israelites his special-chosen people among all the people of the
earth. Surrounding the Ten
Commandments is a ribbon like circle of fire that represents God's
burning/divine love that led him to reveal himself to us through Moses and the
Hebrew people in order that we may come to know Him and how to live in His Love
as His children.
Above the Ten Commandments are the words
of the great shema to Israel in the book of Deuteronomy 6, 4-5 that enjoins the
Hebrew people to love Him with their whole heart and their whole soul and their
whole strength. Just below these words are the Hebrew letters that form the
Holy Name of God -YHWH. Below the Ten Commandments is an image of a scroll of
the Torah or the book of the law (the first five books of the Hebrew bible).