The Eight Commandment as handed down to Moses in the Old Testament says, “Thou shall not steal.” Simple words that we all should live by.

Unfortunately the treasurer of a Long Island synagogue was busted yesterday for stealing $600,000 from the congregation and disappearing when he was finally confronted about the cash.

It wasn’t until checks from the Temple Aish Kodesh in Woodmere started bouncing that synagogue leaders cornered Isaac Zucker last week and asked him about the missing money.

The 47-year-old Zucker had been the temple’s money manager since 2006, and tearfully promised to pay back every cent, but he vanished days later without even a word to his wife.

Should Have Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express

Cops caught up with the suspected embezzler at a Holiday Inn near Long Island-MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, where they suspect that he might have been plotting an escape.

Nassau County Police Detective Lt. Kevin Smith said Zucker had been siphoning money from the synagogue’s bank account since 2008, transferring the funds into his law firm’s coffers.

Zucker, a securities lawyer, was arraigned on a second-degree grand larceny charge and was being held on a $300,000 bond.

Cops said Zucker, a married father of three, left for work on Friday but never arrived. After his wife failed to reach him on his cell phone, she filed a missing persons report. Around the same time, a temple leader reported the missing money to the police, who traced the transfers between the synagogue and the law firm.

Stories like this always sadden me. Why do we have to steal from one another. Still it all fails in comparison to the money Bernard Madoff stole!