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The Ten Commandments



See below, Michael Alan Ross' ethical advocacy,


10 Moral Reasons for One Payer Universal Health Care Insurance for America


in light of Hillel's If I'm only for myself, what am I?




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The Ten Commandments Guidebook

Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals

In Song, Poetry, and Prose

Covers 10 Commandments Plus One Other!

Softcover 153 pages with practical suggestions pages!

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Boston Walks Publishers presents



The ethical advocacy,


10 Moral Reasons for One Payer
Universal Health Care Insurance
for America



By the author of


The Ten Commandments Guidebook


With its


Spiritual and practical ways
to self-struggle with our Ten Commandments














Copyright Michael Alan Ross, 2007.
All Rights Reserved.

Email: BostonWalks

Telephone: 617-489-5020











Can a post-denominational, American Jew elucidate both spiritual and practical ways to self-struggle with our traditional Jewish faith in God and goodness?

Michael Alan Ross uses his creative poetry, prose, and lyrics to construct modern midrashim and piyyutim, prosaic and poetic commentaries to meet such a challenge.


Mr. Ross has the chutzpah, audacity, to look anew at some of our Jewish texts and experiences.

As a modern, post-denominational, committed, American Jew, he seeks meaningful ways to struggle with our Jewish texts, rituals, good deeds, and beliefs. In his newly published, The Ten Commandments Guidebook, he offers many such ways. He also is author of BostonWalks' The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook - 6 Self-guided Jewish History Walk Tours of Downtown Boston. Here is an example of his ethical advocacy, 10 Moral Reasons for One Payer Universal Health Care Insurance for America, in light of Hillel's If I'm only for myself, what am I?






10 Moral Reasons for One Payer Universal Health Care Insurance for America






Number 1

Each of us should be responsible for our brothers and sisters.







Number 2

We Americans, fiscally and physically, are able to share the responsibility of caring for each other.







Number 3

Profit-making need not be balanced with keeping fellow citizens as healthy as humanly possible.







Number 4

Each tax-paying citizen should have a right to health care.







Number 5

Not only should each American be responsible for caring for the body which God has loaned us; but, also, we all should encourage such care.







Number 6

Choice of care-givers should remain an individual's preference.








Number 7

Care-givers should command excellent salaries for doing Godly work.







Number 8

By creating a health insurance pool consisting of our entire nation's population, we will be able to collect enough funds to pay care-givers.







Number 9

By spreading the financing of our health care over everyone, no one individual will find it onerous to contribute.







Number 10

By using the one payer universal health care insurance paradigm, we will empower ourselves to not having to worry about paying the bill when we or anyone we love gets sick and needs care.






Midrashim and Piyyutim


Mr. Ross' prose and poetry about Jewish texts, his prosaic warm memories of family life, and his lyrical voicing of social concerns can be called by the Hebrew words piyyutim and midrashim, poems and commentaries, which offer uplifting, spiritual and, sometimes, challenging interpretations.
In addition, Mr. Ross frequently offers many suggestions for the reader to consider in struggling with such texts as well as suggestions for good deeds. Mr. Ross' The Ten Commandments Guidebook, ISBN 0970082525, is available for purchase online by clicking here Online Print-out The Ten Commandments Guidebook Order Form. The Guidebook also is for sale in selected bookstores such as Kolbo Fine Judaica and Israel Book Shop in Boston/Brookline. It also can be purchased in multiple copies for Hebrew, day school, and adult classes directly from the publisher. The Ten Commandments Guidebook, ISBN 0970082525, by Michael Alan Ross, BostonWalks Publishers 2004. In paperback, 153 pages, list price: $19.95 (Wholesale purchase of 12 or more copies available at 40% discount.). Contact information: BostonWalks Publishers, 50 Grove St., Belmont MA 02478, email: bostonwalks@hotmail.com, telephone: 617-489-5020.






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Now available!


The Jewish Friendship Trail Guidebook

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Covers Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge

Softcover 198 pages with maps & b/w photos

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Book Order Form
to order now!



Now available!


The Ten Commandments Guidebook

Ways to Self-Struggle with Classic Morals

In Song, Poetry, and Prose

Covers 10 Commandments Plus One Other!

Softcover 153 pages with practical suggestions pages!

Print out this
Book Order Form
to order now!














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