Comparing and contrasting the two has made for some excellent Shabbos table discussions and intellectual excercises over the years. My first go-around actually learning the Torah with Rashi’s commentary didn’t happen until my early twenties, and I was struck by how much of my own, personal experience of the Exodus was based more on the 10 Commandments than actual Jewish tradition. Although I watched it on a television screen decades after it “played on the big screen, it still took my breath away – even as a child of the eighties, who grew up accustomed to Spielberg and Lucas-era spectacle. Growing up in secular America, it was always a major event when they would broadcast The Ten Commandments on one of the major, primetime networks.
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