10th Commandment: Do Not Desire Your Neighbor’s Possessions

The 10 Commandments E13 — We’ve arrived at the 10th and final commandment, which feels very different from all the ones that came before it: “Do not desire … anything that belongs to your neighbor.” While most translations use the word “covet,” we simply find khamad , which is the general Hebrew word for desire. All the other commandments involve observable actions, but desire is entirely…