Ten Commandments "only" the Ten Commandments were handed down at Mount Sinai rather than the whole Torah. In later centuries rabbis continued to omit the Ten Commandments from daily liturgy in order to prevent a confusion among Jews that they are "only" bound by the Ten Commandments, and not also by many other biblical and Talmudic laws, such as the requirement to observe holy days other than the sabbath. Today, the Ten Commandments are heard in the synagogue three times a year: as they come up during the readings of Exodus and Deuteronomy, and during the festival of Shavuot. The Exodus version
Alternatives to the Ten Commandments then added a third additional commandment. Christopher Hitchens was an English American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic and journalist. His new Ten Commandments are: Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments, cited by Dawkins in his book "The God Delusion": Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with". He then adds four more of his own devising: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,