On the Ten Commandments

This commentary on the Ten Commandments is written as a Hebrew liturgical poem (piyyut) with longer explications strewn throughout. While the text was traditionally attributed to Se‘adya Ga’on, recent research has questioned that attribution due to its grammatical errors, style, and content. Another possible author is the little-known figure Eleazer ben Eliezer, who lived in the same period as Se‘adya. The text is read during the holiday of Shavuot among some Jewish communities from the Middle East.