The Talmud (Shevuot 39a) records that the entire world once convulsed with such force that is almost split apart when the Holy One uttered, "Thou shalt not take My name in vain."
"Why then?" asks a nameless scholar. "Why was it that the earth was verly nearly destroyed then and not at any other part of the Decalogue?"
Such is the awesome power of this Mitzvah to not take His name in vain that it guides the other nine.
"Why then?" asks a nameless scholar. "Why was it that the earth was verly nearly destroyed then and not at any other part of the Decalogue?"
Such is the awesome power of this Mitzvah to not take His name in vain that it guides the other nine.
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