I love watching David's mind work. Friday, his Jewish book-of-the-month club selection arrived, The Littlest Mountain. So, we read it over lunch. It's the story of how God picked Sinai as the place to hand down the Ten Commandments. We hear a lot from the various mountains vying to be God's favorite, but I didn't notice the fact it never covers the actual Ten Commandments.

Then David played a lot of Beatles tunes--All Together Now and Nowhere Man being current favorites. We went through his pants' drawer trying on and getting rid of all the highwaters, which meant basically all the pants. We raced to Value Village, picked out new pants, tried them on, checked out, and were driving to my sister's house when David said, "What are the Ten Commandments?" Three hours later he remembers the book and wants to discuss the big missing details.

Quick, can you name all ten? Can you phrase them in a way that a five-year-old can understand?

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I got six.

➢ No other gods before me.
➢ Do what your mommy and daddy tell you.
➢ Don't steal.
➢ Don't look at other people's toys and wish they were yours. (David has been coveting the car set Benjamin and Eli have.)
➢ Do Shabbat.
➢ Don't kill.

I really should get credit for seven because I just assumed Thou shalt have no other gods before me and don't bow down to other gods were the same one. John, of course, with his excellent CCD education got all of them:

➢ No adultery (We couldn't figure out how to translate that for a five-year-old. One friend had seen a children's country western version that said: Stick with your partner. I thought that was cute.)
➢ No telling lies.
➢ Don't say mean things about God. (That was my version of blasphemy.)