The 613 Mitzvot
While this list is mainly compiled using the order laid out on jewfaq.org (whose choices of division I like) based primarily on Rambam’s interpretation as well as other sources, I have made some changes of my own that I believe are more scripturally accurate. This I do not out of any form of disrespect for tradition, but rather to put forth what HaShem has laid on my heart to do; this is, simply, to put the commands back in their proper place in the Torah, and what I feel, is their original intention that HaShem has meant for them. I admonish the reader to seek the Ruach in their own life and compare what I have done here with the scriptures. Baruch Ha’ba B’Shem Adon!
HaShem (YHVH)
1. To know that HaShem exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6)
2. To have no other gods beside HaShem (Ex. 20:3)
3. Not to Blaspheme [Ex. 22:28 (27)], for which the penalty is death (Lev. 24:16)
4. To hallow the name of G*d (Lev. 22:32)
5. Not to use G*d’s name in vain (Lev. 22:32) [1]
6. To know that HaShem is One, a complete Unity (Deut. 6:4)
7. To love HaShem (Deut. 6:5)
8. To fear only HaShem and fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20)
9. Not to put the word of HaShem to the test (Deut. 6:16)
10. To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)
Torah
11. To honor the old and the wise (Lev. 19:32)
12. To learn the Torah and teach it (Deut. 6:7)
13. To cleave to Him (Deut. 10:20) [2]
14. Not to add to the commandments of the Torah (Deut. 13:1) [3]
15. Not to take away from the commandments of the Torah (Deut. 13:1)
16. That every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself (Deut. 31:19)
Signs and Symbols
17. To circumcise the male offspring (Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3)
18. To put tzitzit (fringes) on the corners of clothing and to place with each fringe a thread of blue (Num. 15:38)
19. To bind tefillin on the head (Deut. 6:8)
20. To bind tefillin on the arm (Deut. 6:8)
21. To affix the mezuzah to the doorposts and gates of your house (Deut. 6:9)
Prayer and Blessing
22. To pray to HaShem (Ex. 23:25; Deut. 6:13) [4]
23. To read the Shema in the morning and at night (Deut. 6:7)
24. To say grace after meals (Deut. 8:10)
25. Not to lay down a stone for worship (Lev. 26:1)
Love and Brotherhood
26. To love your neighbor as yourself (Lev. 19:18)
27. Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16)
28. Not to wrong anyone in speech (Lev. 25:17)
29. Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16)
30. Not to cherish hatred in one’s heart (Lev. 19:17)
31. Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18)
32. Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18)
33. Not to put a neighbor to shame (Lev. 19:17)
34. Not to curse the deaf (Lev. 19:14) [5]
35. Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19:14)
36. To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17)
37. To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5)
38. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor’s beast (Deut. 22:4)
39. Not to leave a beast that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deut. 22:4)
The Poor and Unfortunate
40. Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21)
41. Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22)
42. To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
43. Not to gather gleanings (Lev. 19:9)
44. To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
45. Not to gather the imperfect clusters (ol’loth) from the vineyard (Lev.19:10)
46. To leave ol’loth of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 24:21)
47. Not to gather the single grapes (peret) that have fallen to the ground (Lev. 19:10)
48. To leave peret of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10)
49. Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf or fruit bundle (Deut. 24:19, 20)
50. To leave the forgotten sheaves and bundles for the poor (Deut. 24:19, 20)
51. Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deut. 15:7)
52. To give charity according to one’s means (Deut. 15:11)
Treatment of Gentiles
53. To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19)
54. Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20)
55. Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex.22:20)
56. Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7:3)
57. To exact the debt of an alien (Deut. 15:3)
58. To lend to an alien at interest [Deut. 23:20(21)] [6]
Marriage, Divorce and Family
59. To honor father and mother (Ex. 20:12)
60. Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15)
61. Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17)
62. To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19:3)
63. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28)
64. That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deut. 23:2)
65. That a mamzer (illegitimate child) shall not marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deut. 23:3)
66. That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deut. 23:4)
67. Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8, 9)
68. Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8, 9)
69. That there shall be no Harlot in Israel (Deut. 23:18) [7]
70. To take a wife by Kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24:1)
71. That the newly married husband shall be free for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deut. 24:5)
72. That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties (Deut. 24:5)
73. Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex. 21:10)
74. That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Num. 5:30)
75. That one who defames his wife’s honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut. 22:19)
76. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut. 22:19)
77. To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24:1)
78. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4)
79. That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband’s brother (Deut. 25:5) [8]
80. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5) [9]
81. That the widow formally release the brother in law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deut. 24:7-9)
Forbidden Sexual Relations
82. Not to draw near to a relative to uncover their nakedness (Lev. 18:6)
83. Not to commit incest with one’s mother (Lev. 18:7)
84. Not to commit sodomy with one’s father (Lev. 18:7)
85. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s wife (Lev. 18:8)
86. Not to commit incest with one’s sister (Lev. 18:9)
87. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s wife’s daughter (Lev. 18:11)
88. Not to commit incest with one’s son’s daughter (Lev. 18:10)
89. Not to commit incest with one’s daughter’s daughter (Lev. 18:10)
90. Not to commit incest with one’s daughter [10]
91. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s sister (Lev. 18:12)
92. Not to commit incest with one’s mother’s sister (Lev 18:13)
93. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s brother’s wife (Lev. 18:14)
94. Not to commit sodomy with one’s father’s brother (Lev. 18.14)
95. Not to commit incest with one’s son’s wife (Lev. 18:15)
96. Not to commit incest with one’s brother’s wife (Lev. 18:16)
97. Not to commit incest with one’s wife’ daughter (Lev. 18:17)
98. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s son (Lev. 18:17)
99. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s daughter (Lev. 18:17)
100. Not to commit incest with one’s wife’s sister (Lev. 18:18)
101. Not to have intercourse with a woman in her menstrual period (Lev. 18:19)
102. Not to have intercourse with another man’s wife (Lev. 18:20)
103. Not to lie with another male as one lies with a woman (Lev. 18:22)
104. Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
105. That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
106. Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24) [11]
Times and Seasons
107. That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years to be calculated by the Supreme Court (Ex. 12:2)
108. Not to travel on the Sabbath outside the limits of one’s place of residence (Ex. 16:29) [12]
109. To sanctify the Sabbath (Ex. 20:8)
110. Not to do work on the Sabbath (Ex. 20:10)
111. Not to kindle a fire on the Sabbath (Ex. 35:3)
112. To rest on the Sabbath (Ex. 23:12; 34:21)
113. To celebrate the festivals (Ex. 23:14)
114. To rejoice on the festivals (Deut. 16:4)
115. To appear in the sanctuary on the festivals (Deut. 16:14)
116. To remove chametz (leaven) on the eve of Passover (Ex. 12:15)
117. To rest on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:7)
118. Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:6, 7)
119. To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
120. Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
121. To eat matzah on the first night of Passover (Ex. 12:18)
122. That no chametz be in the Israelite’s possession during Passover (Ex. 12:19)
123. Not to eat any food containing chametz on Passover (Ex. 12:20)
124. Not to eat chametz on Passover (Ex. 13:3)
125. That chametz shall not be seen in an Israelite’s home during Passover (Ex. 13:7)
126. To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover (Ex. 13:8)
127. Not to eat chametz after mid-day on the fourteenth of Abiv (Nissan) (Deut. 16:3)
128. To count forty-nine days from the time of the time of the cutting of the Omer (first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Lev. 23:15)
129. To rest on Shavu’ot (Lev. 23:21)
130. Not to do work on the Shavu’ot (Lev. 23:21)
131. To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:24)
132. Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:25)
133. To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah (Num. 29:1)
134. To humble oneself on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:27) [13]
135. To afflict oneself on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:29)
136. Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:31)
137. To rest on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:32)
138. To rest on the first day of Sukkot (Lev. 23:35)
139. Not to do work on the first day of Sukkot (Lev. 23:35)
140. To rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Lev. 23:36)
141. Not to do work on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Lev. 23:36)
142. To take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants (Lev. 23:40) [14]
143. To dwell in sukkas seven days during Sukkot (Lev. 23:42)
Dietary Laws
144. To examine the marks in beasts so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:2) [15]
145. Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4)
146. To examine the marks in fish so as to distinguish clean from unclean (Lev. 11:9) [16]
147. Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11)
148. To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deut. 14:11) [17]
149. Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13)
150. To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:21)
151. Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41)
152. Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41, 42)
153. Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44)
154. Not to eat of things that swarm in the water (Lev 11:43, 46)
155. Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19) [18]
156. Not to eat of the flesh of a beast that is terefah (lit. torn) (Ex. 22:30)
157. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21)
158. To slay cattle, deer, and fowl according to the laws of shechita if their flesh is to be eaten (Deut. 12:21)
159. Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23)
160. Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Lev. 22:28)
161. Not to take the mother bird with the young (Deut. 22:6)
162. To set the mother bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6, 7)
163. Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex. 21:28)
164. Not to eat of the thigh vein which shrank (Gen. 32:33)
165. Not to eat tallow-fat (chelev) (Lev. 7:23)
166. Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26) [Also Lev. 17:11-14] [19]
167. To cover the blood of non domesticated animals, and of fowl that have been killed (Lev. 17:13)
168. Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20) [20]
Business practices
169. Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14)
170. Not to make a loan to a brother on interest (Lev. 25:37)
171. Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) [21]
172. Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Ex. 22:24)
173. To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24) [22]
174. Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24)
175. Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6)
176. Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10)
177. Not to keep a pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut. 24:12)
178. To return a pledge to its owner (Deut 24:13)
179. Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17)
180. Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35)
181. To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36)
182. Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13, 14)
Employees, Servants and Slaves
183. Not to delay payment of a hired man’s wages (Lev. 19:13)
184. That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping (Deut. 23:25, 26)
185. That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deut. 23:25)
186. That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested (Deut. 23:26)
187. To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deut. 24:15)
188. To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him. (Ex. 21:2-6)
189. Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Lev. 25:39)
190. Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Lev. 25:42)
191. Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Lev. 24:43)
192. Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Lev. 25:53)
193. Not to send away a Hebrew bondservant empty handed, when he is freed from service (Deut. 15:13)
194. To liberally give to the Hebrew bondservant at the end of their service (Deut. 15:14)
195. To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8)
196. Not to sell a Hebrew maidservant to another person (Ex. 21:8)
197. To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8, 9)
198. To keep the slave from surrounding nations as an inheritance for your children forever (Lev. 25:46)
199. Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Palestine (Deut. 23:16)
200. Not to wrong such a slave (Deut. 23:17)
201. Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy (Deut 25:4)
Vows, Oaths and Swearing
202. That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deut. 23:34)
203. Not to swear needlessly (Ex. 20:7)
204. Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Lev. 19:12)
205. To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the instructions in the Torah (Num. 30:2-17)
206. Not to break a vow (Num. 30:3)
207. To swear by His name only in truth (Deut. 10:20)
208. Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deut. 23:22)
The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
209. To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:2)
210. To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11)
211. Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
212. Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
213. Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same manner as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5)
214. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same manner as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25:5)
215. To sound the Shofar (ram’s horn) in the Sabbatical year (Lev 25:9)
216. To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15:2)
217. Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deut. 15:2)
218. Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9)
219. To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deut. 31:12)
220. To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Lev. 25:8)
221. To keep the Jubilee Year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Lev. 25:10)
222. Not to neither cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:11)
223. Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
224. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee year, the same as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
225. To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee Year (Lev. 25:24)
The Court and Judicial Procedure
226. To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deut. 16:18)
227. Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the Torah, even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deut. 1:17)
228. To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Lev. 25:14)
229. To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Ex. 22:9)
230. To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Ex. 22:13, 14)
231. To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Num. 27:8-11)
232. o judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Ex. 21:33, 34)
233. To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Ex. 21:35, 36)
234. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Ex. 22:4)
235. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Ex. 22:5)
236. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Ex. 22:6, 7)
237. To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Ex. 22:8)
238. Not to curse a judge (Ex. 22:27)
239. That one who possesses evidence shall testify in court (Lev. 5:1)
240. Not to bare false witness (Ex. 20:13)
241. That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Num. 35:30)
242. That a transgressor shall not testify (Ex. 23:1)
243. That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deut. 24:16)
244. Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party (Ex. 23:1)
245. To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deut. 13:15)
246. Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness (Deut. 19:15)
247. To give the decision according to the majority, when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Sanhedrin as to matters of law (Ex. 23:2)
248. Not to decide in capital cases according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by only one, those who are for acquittal (Ex. 23:2)
249. That in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation (Ex. 23:2)
250. To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Lev. 19:15)
251. Not to do unrighteousness in judgment (Lev. 19:15)
252. Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Lev. 19:15)
253. Not to take a bribe (Ex. 23:8)
254. Not to afraid of a bad man when trying a case (Deut 1:17)
255. Not to be moved when trying a case by the poverty of one of the parties (Ex. 23:3; Lev. 19:15)
256. Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deut. 24:17)
257. Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (Ex. 23:6) [23]
258. Not to render a decision on one’s personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Ex. 23:7)
259. Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial (Num. 35:12)
260. To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deut. 17:11)
261. Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deut. 17:11)
Injuries and Damages
262. To make a parapet for your roof (Deut. 22:8)
263. Not to leave something that might cause hurt (Deut. 22:8)
264. To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer (Deut. 25:12)
265. Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness (Deut. 25:12)
Property and Property Rights
266. Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Lev. 25:23)
267. Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time (Lev. 25:34)
268. That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Lev. 25:29)
269. Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deut. 19:14)
270. Not to swear falsely in denial of another’s property rights (Lev. 19:11)
271. Not to deny falsely another’s property rights (Lev. 19:11)
272. Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deut 17:16)
273. Not to steal personal property (Lev. 19:11)
274. To restore that which one took by robbery (Lev. 5:23)
275. To return lost property (Deut. 22:1)
276. Not to pretend to not have seen lost property, in order to avoid the obligation to return it (Deut. 22:3)
Criminal Laws
277. Not to slay an innocent person (murder) (EX. 20:13)
278. Not to take captive any person of Israel [Ex. 20:15 (13)] [24]
279. Not to rob by violence (Lev. 19:13)
280. Not to defraud (Lev. 19:13)
281. Not to covet what belongs to another (Ex. 20:14)
282. Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deut. 5:18)
283. Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Num. 15:39)
Punishment and Restitution
284. That the court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword (Ex. 21:20; Lev. 26:25)
285. That the court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev. 20:10)
286. That the court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev. 20:14)
287. That the court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24)
288. To hang the dead body of one who has earned such penalty (Deut. 21:22)
289. That the dead body of a criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree overnight (Deut. 21:23)
290. To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23)
291. Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35:31)
292. To exile one who kills by accident (Num. 35:25)
293. To establish six cities of refuge for those who kill accidentally (Deut. 19:3)
294. Not to accept ransom from an accidental Killing, so as to relieve him from exile (Num. 35:32)
295. To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (Deut. 19:3) [25]
296. Not to plow nor so the rough valley, in which a heifer’s neck was broken (Deut. 21:4)
297. To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death (Ex. 21:16, 37&22:1)
298. That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Ex. 21:18, 19)
299. To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Ex. 22:15, 16)
300. That the violator of an unbetrothed virgin shall marry her (Deut 22:28, 29)
301. That one who has raped a damsel and has the married her in accordance with the law shall not divorce her (Deut. 22:29)
302. Not to inflict punishment on the Sabbath (Ex. 35:3) [26]
303. To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25:2)
304. Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred such punishment (Deut. 25:3) [27]
305. Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage (Deut. 19:13)
306. To do unto those who bare false witness as they had purposed to do to the accused (Deut. 19:19)
307. Not to punish anyone who has committed an offense under duress (Deut. 22:26)
Prophecy
308. To heed the call of every prophet in each generation, provided he neither adds to, nor takes away from the Torah (Deut. 18:15)
309. Not to prophesy falsely (Deut. 18:20)
310. Not to refrain from putting as false prophet to death, nor to be in fear of him (Deut. 18:22)
Idolatry, Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices
311. Not to make a graven image for oneself, nor to have it made by another (Ex. 20:4)
312. Not to make any gods of silver or of gold (Ex. 20:20) [28]
313. Not to make idols even for others (Ex. 34:17; Lev. 19:4)
314. Not to use the ornament of any object of idolatrous worship (Deut. 7:25)
315. Not to make use of an idol or its accessory objects, offerings, or libations (Deut. 7:26)
316. Not to drink wine of idolaters (Deut. 32:38)
317. Not to worship an idol in the way in which it usually worshipped (Ex. 20:5)
318. Not to bow down to an idol even if that is not its usual mode of worship (Ex. 20:5)
319. Not to prophesy in the name of an idol (Ex. 23:13; Deut. 18:20)
320. Not to hearken to one who prophesies in the name of an idol (Deut. 13:4)
321. Not to lead the children of Israel astray to Idolatry (Ex. 23:13)
322. Not to entice an Israelite to idolatry (Deut. 13:12)
323. To destroy idolatry and its appurtenances (Deut. 12:2, 3)
324. Not to love the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13:9)
325. Not to give up hating the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13:9)
326. Not to save the enticer from capital punishment, but to stand by at his execution (Deut. 13:9)
327. A person whom one attempted to entice to idolatry shall not urge pleas for the acquittal of the enticer (Deut. 13:9)
328. A person whom one attempted to entice shall not refrain from giving evidence of the enticer’s guilt, if he has such evidence (Deut. 13:9)
329. Not to swear by an idol to its worshippers, nor to cause them to swear by it (Ex. 23:13)
330. Not to turn ones attention to idolatry (Lev. 19:4)
331. Not to adopt the institutions of idolaters, nor their customs (Lev. 18:3; Lev. 20:23)
332. Not to pass a child through the fire to Molech (Lev. 18:21)
333. Not to suffer anyone practicing witchcraft to live (Ex. 22:17)
334. Not to practice onein (divining times or seasons as favorable or unfavorable using astrology) or consult one who does (Lev. 19:26)
335. Not to practice nachesh (divining based on signs and portents; using charms and incantations) or consult one who does (Lev. 19:26)
336. Not to practice necromancy or consult those who do (Lev. 19:31)
337. Not to consult a witch or wizard (Lev. 19:31)
338. Not to practice magic or consult those who do (through the use of herbs, stones and objects that people use) (Deut. 18:10)
339. Not to practice kessem (a general term for magical practices) or consult those who do (Deut. 18:10)
340. Not to practice or consult those who practice the art of casting charms, or spells (Deut. 18:11)
341. Not to inquire or consult those who inquire of the dead (Deut. 18:11)
342. Not to seek the dead (Maytim) or consult those who do (Deut. 18:11)
343. Not to inquire of a witch or wizard (Deut. 18:11)
344. Not to remove the entire beard as do the pagans (Lev. 19:27)
345. Not to round the corners of the of the head, as do the pagan priests (Lev. 19:27)
346. Not to cut oneself or make incisions in ones flesh in grief, as do the pagans (Lev. 19:28; Deut. 14:1)
347. Not to pierce ones skin for the dead (tattoo the body) nor inflict markings upon the flesh (also tattoo) as do the pagans (Lev. 19:28)
348. Not to make a bald spot between your eyes for the dead (Deut. 14:1)
349. Not to plant a tree for worship (Deut. 16:21)
350. Not to set up a pillar for worship (Deut. 16:22)
351. Not to show favor to idolaters (Deut. 7:2)
352. Not to make covenant with the seven Canaanite (idolatrous) nations (Ex. 23:32; Deut. 7:2)
353. Not to settle idolaters in our land (Ex. 23:33)
354. To slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city (Deut. 13:16, 17)
355. Not to rebuild a city that has been led astray to idolatry (Deut. 13:17)
356. Not to make use of the property of a city that has been so led astray (Deut. 13:18)
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
357. Not to cross-breed cattle of different species (Lev. 19:19)
358. Not to sow two different kinds of seed together in one field (Lev. 19:19)
359. Not to eat the fruit of a tree from three years from the time it was planted (Lev. 19:23)
360. That the fruit of fruit-bearing trees in the fourth year of their planting shall be sacred like the second tithe and eaten in Jerusalem (Lev. 19:24)
361. Not to sew herbs or grain in a vineyard (Deut. 22:9)
362. Not to eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard (Deut. 22:9)
363. Not to work with beasts of different species yoked together (Deut. 22:10)
Clothing
364. That a man shall not wear women’s clothing (Deut. 22:5)
365. That a woman shall not wear men’s clothing (Deut. 22:5)
366. Not to wear a garment of wool and linen mixed together (Deut. 22:11)
The Firstborn
367. To redeem the firstborn human male (Ex. 13:13; 34:20; Num. 18:15)
368. To redeem the firstling of an ass (Ex. 13:13; 34:20)
369. To break the neck of the firstling of an ass if it not redeemed (Ex. 13:13; 34:20)
370. Not to redeem the firstling of a beast considered clean (fit for sacrifice) (Num. 18:17)
Kohanim and Levites
371. That the kohanim (priests) shall put on priestly vestments for service (Ex. 28:2)
372. Not to tear the robe of the Kohein Gadol (High Priest) (Ex. 28:32)
373. That the kohein shall not be able at all times to enter the sanctuary (i.e. at times when he is not performing service) (Lev. 16:2)
374. That the ordinary Kohein shall not defile himself by contact with any dead, other than immediate relatives (Lev. 21:1-3)
375. That the kohanim defile themselves for their deceased relatives (by attending their burial), and mourn for them like other Israelites, who are commanded to mourn for their relatives (Lev. 21:3)
376. That a Kohein, who had an immersion for cleansing during the daylight, shall not enter the sanctuary till after sunset (Lev. 21:6)
377. That a Kohein shall not marry a divorced woman (Lev. 21:7)
378. That a Kohein shall not marry a harlot (Lev. 21:7)
379. That a Kohein shall not marry a profaned woman (Lev. 21:7)
380. To show honor to a Kohein and to give him precedence in all things that are holy (Lev. 21:8)
381. That a Kohein Gadol shall not defile himself with any dead including relatives (Lev. 21:11)
382. That a Kohein Gadol shall not go under the same roof with a dead body (Lev. 21:11)
383. That the Kohein Gadol shall marry a virgin (Lev. 21:13)
384. That the Kohein Gadol shall not marry a widow (Lev. 21:14)
385. That the Kohein Gadol shall not cohabit with a widow, even without marriage, because he profanes her (Lev. 21:15)
386. That a person with a physical blemish shall not serve in the sanctuary (Lev. 21:17)
387. That a Kohein with a temporary blemish shall not serve there (Lev. 21:21)
388. That a person with a physical blemish shall not enter the sanctuary further than the altar (Lev. 21:23)
389. That a Kohein who is unclean shall not serve in the sanctuary (Lev. 22:2, 3)
390. To send the unclean out of the camp of the Shechinah (the presence or glory of HaShem) (Num. 5:2)
391. That a Kohein who is unclean shall not enter the camp of the Shechinah (Num. 5:2, 3)
392. That the kohanim shall bless Israel (Num. 6:23)
393. To set apart a portion of the dough for the kohein (Num. 15:20)
394. That the Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that belongs to the kohanim, nor the kohanim with that belonging to the Levites (Num. 18:3)
395. That one who is not a descendant of Aaron, in the male line, shall not serve in the sanctuary (Num. 18:23)
396. That the Levite shall serve in the sanctuary (Num. 18:23)
397. To give the Levites cities to dwell in, these to serve also as cities of refuge (Num. 35:2)
398. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any portion of territory in the land of Israel (Deut. 18:1)
399. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any of the spoil of the conquest of the Promised Land (Deut. 18:1)
400. That the kohanim shall serve in the sanctuary in divisions, except on festivals when they all serve together (Deut. 18:6-8)
T’rumah, Tithes and Taxes
401. That an uncircumcised person shall not eat of the t’rumah (heave offering), and the same applies to other holy things (Ex. 12:44, 45; Lev. 22:10)
402. Not to alter the order of separating the t’rumah and the tithes; the separation be in order first-fruits at the beginning, then the t’rumah, then the first tithe, and last the second tithe (Ex. 22:28)
403. To give a half shekel every year to the sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices (Ex. 30:13)
404. That a kohein who is unclean shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:3, 4)
405. That a person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohein shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
406. That a sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
407. Not to eat tevel (something from which the t’rumah and tithe have not yet been separated) (Lev. 22:15)
408. To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth after taking out the t’rumah) for the Levites (Lev. 27:30; Num. 18:24)
409. To tithe cattle (Lev. 27:32)
410. Not to sell the tithe of the heard (Lev. 27:32, 33)
411. That the Levites shall set apart a tenth part of the tithes, which they have received from the Israelites, and give it to the kohanim (called the t’rumah of the tithe) (num. 18:26)
412. Not to eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
413. Not to consume the second tithe of the vintage outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
414. Not to consume the second tithe of the oil outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
415. Not to forsake the Levites (Deut. 12:19) [29]
416. To set apart the second tithe in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the sabbatical cycle to be eaten by its owner in Jerusalem (Deut. 14:22) [30]
417. To set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the sabbatical cycle for the poor (Deut. 14:28, 29)
418. To give the kohein the due portions of the carcass of the cattle (Deut. 18:3) [31]
419. To give the first of the fleece to the kohein (Deut. 18:4) [32]
420. To set apart t’rumah g’dolah (the great heave offering, that is, a small portion of the grain, wine and oil) for the kohein (Deut. 18:4)
421. Not to expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food and drink (Deut. 26:14)
422. Not to eat the second tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of un-cleanliness, until the tithe had been redeemed (Deut. 26:14)
423. Not to eat the second tithe when mourning (Deut. 26:14)
424. To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the sanctuary (Deut. 26:13)
The Temple, the Sanctuary and Sacred Objects
425. Not to build an altar of hewn stone (Ex. 20:22)
426. Not to mount the altar by steps (Ex. 20:23)
427. To build the sanctuary (Ex. 25:8)
428. Not to remove the staves from the Ark (Ex. 25:15)
429. To set the showbread and the frankincense before the L*RD every Shabbat (Ex. 25:30)
430. To kindle lights in the Sanctuary (Ex. 27:21)
431. That the breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod (Ex. 28:28)
432. To offer up incense twice daily (Ex. 30:7)
433. Not to offer strange incense nor any sacrifice upon the golden alter (Ex. 30:9)
434. That the kohein shall wash his hands and feet at the time of service (Ex. 30:19)
435. To prepare the oil of anointing and anoint high kohanim and kings with it (Ex. 30:31)
436. Not to compound oil for lay use after the formula of the anointing oil (Ex. 30:32-33)
437. Not to anoint a stranger with the anointing oil (Ex. 30:32)
438. Not to compound anything after the formula of the incense (Ex. 30:37)
439. That he who, in error, makes unlawful use of sacred things, shall make restitution of the value of his trespass and add a fifth (Lev. 5:16)
440. To remove the ashes from the alter (Lev. 6:3)
441. To keep fire always burning on the altar of the burnt- offering (Lev. 6:6)
442. Not to extinguish the fire on the altar (Lev. 6:6)
443. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with disheveled hair (Lev. 10:6)
444. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with torn garments (Lev. 10:6)
445. That the kohein shall not leave the Courtyard of the Sanctuary, during service (Lev. 10:7)
446. That an intoxicated person shall not enter the Sanctuary, nor give a decision in matters of the law (Lev. 10:9-11)
447. To revere the Sanctuary (Lev. 19:30) [33]
448. That when the Ark is carried, it should be carried on the shoulder (Num. 7:9)
449. To observe the second Passover (Num. 9:11)
450. To eat on the Passover, the flesh of the Paschal Lamb, with bitter herbs and unleavened bread (Num. 9:11)
451. Not to leave any flesh of the Paschal Lamb brought on the Second Passover until the morning (Num. 9:12)
452. Not to break a bone of the Paschal Lamb brought on the second Passover (Num. 9:12)
453. To sound the trumpets at the offering of sacrifices and in times of trouble (Num. 10:9, 10)
454. To watch over the edifice continually (Num. 18:2)
455. Not to allow the Sanctuary to remain unwatched (Num. 18:5)
456. To bring a guilt offering (Asham), if in doubt if a sin which requires a sin offering was committed (Lev. 5:17)
457. Not to destroy anything of the Sanctuary (or Synagogues), or of houses of study, nor erase the holy names of HaShem; nor may sacred scriptures be destroyed (Deut. 12:2-4)
Sacrifices and Offerings
458. To sanctify the firstling of clean cattle and offer it up (Ex. 13:2; Deut. 15:19)
459. To slay the Paschal Lamb (Ex. 12:6)
460. To eat the flesh of the Paschal Lamb on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan (Abiv) (Ex. 12:8)
461. Not to eat the flesh of the Paschal Lamb raw or sodden (Ex. 12:9)
462. No to leave any portion of the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice until the morning unconsumed (Ex. 12:10)
463. Not to give the flesh of the Paschal Lamb to an Israelite who has become an apostate (Ex. 12:43)
464. Not to give the flesh of the Paschal Lamb to the stranger living among you to eat (Ex. 12:43, 45)
465. Not to take the flesh of the Paschal Lamb from the company’s place of assembly (Ex. 12:46)
466. Not to break a bone of the Paschal Lamb (Ex. 12:46)
467. That the uncircumcised shall not eat of the flesh of the Paschal Lamb (Ex. 12:48)
468. Not to slaughter the Paschal Lamb while there is yet chametz in the home (Ex. 23:18; 34:25)
469. Not to leave the part of the Paschal Lamb that should be burnt on the altar until morning (Ex. 23:18; 34:25)
470. Not to boil a kid in its mother’s milk (Ex. 23:19; 34:26) [34]
471. To bring the first fruits to the Sanctuary (Ex. 23:19)
472. Not to go up to the Sanctuary for the festival without bringing an offering (Ex. 23:15)
473. That the flesh of a sin offering and a guilt offering shall be eaten (Ex. 29:33)
474. That one not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat the flesh of the holy sacrifices (Ex. 29:33)
475. To observe the procedure of the burnt offering (Lev. 1:3)
476. To observe the procedure of the meal offering (Lev. 2:1)
477. Not to offer up leaven or honey (Lev. 2:11)
478. That every sacrifice shall be salted (Lev. 2:13)
479. Not to offer up any offering unsalted (Lev. 2:13)
480. That the Court of Judgment shall offer up a sacrifice if they have erred in a judicial pronouncement (Lev. 4:13)
481. That an individual shall bring a sin offering if he has sinned in error; the transgression (conscious violation) of which is punished with excision (Lev. 4:27, 28)
482. To offer a sacrifice of varying value according to one’s means (Lev. 5:7)
483. Not to sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin offering (Lev. 5:8)
484. Not to put olive oil in a sin offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
485. Not to put frankincense on a sin offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
486. That an individual shall bring a guilt offering if he is in doubt as to whether he has committed a sin for which one has to bring a sin offering (Lev. 5:17-19)
487. That the remainder of the meal offerings shall be eaten (Lev. 6:9)
488. Not to allow the remainder of the meal offerings to become leavened (Lev. 6:10)
489. That the High Kohein shall offer a meal offering daily (Lev. 6:13)
490. Not to eat of the meal offering brought by the kohanim (Lev. 6:16)
491. To observe the procedure of the sin offering (Lev. 6:18)
492. Not to eat of the flesh of sin offerings, the blood of which is brought within the Sanctuary and sprinkled toward the Veil (Lev. 6:23)
493. To observe the procedure of the guilt offering (Lev. 7:1)
494. To observe the procedure of the peace offering (Lev. 7:11)
495. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has remained over (Lev. 7:17)
496. Not to eat of sacrifices that are eaten beyond the appointed time for eating them (Lev. 7:18) [35]
497. Not to eat of holy things that have become unclean (Lev. 7:19)
498. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice which has become unclean (Lev. 7:19)
499. That a person who is unclean shall not eat things that are holy (Lev. 7:20)
500. A daughter of a kohein who profaned herself shall not eat of the holy things, neither of the heave offering nor of the breast, nor of the shoulder of peace offerings (Lev. 10:14; 22:12)
501. That a woman after childbirth shall bring an offering when she is clean (Lev. 12:6)
502. That the leper shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed (Lev. 14:10)
503. That a man having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed (Lev. 15:13-15)
504. That a woman having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after she is cleansed of her issue (Lev. 15:28-30)
505. To observe on Yom Kippur the service appointed for that day, regarding the sacrifice, confessions, sending away of the scapegoat, etc. (Lev. 16:3-34)
506. Not to slaughter beasts set apart for sacrifice, outside the Sanctuary (Lev. 17:3, 4)
507. Not to eat the flesh of a sacrifice that has been left over (beyond the time for its consumption (Lev. 19:8)
508. Not to sanctify blemished cattle for sacrifice on the altar (Lev. 22:20)
509. That every animal offered up shall be without blemish (Lev. 22:21)
510. Not to inflict a blemish on cattle set apart for sacrifice (Lev. 22:21)
511. Not to slaughter blemished cattle as sacrifices (Lev. 22:22)
512. Not to burn the limbs of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev. 22:22)
513. Not to sprinkle the blood of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev. 22:24)
514. Not to offer up a blemished beast that comes from non-Israelites (Lev. 22:25)
515. That sacrifices of cattle can only take place when they are least eight days old (Lev. 22:27)
516. Not to leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering until the morning (Lev. 22:30)
517. To offer up the meal offering of the Omer on the morrow after the first day of Passover, together with one lamb (Lev. 23:10)
518. Not to eat bread made of new grain before the Omer of the barley has been offered up on the second day of Passover (Lev. 23:14)
519. Not to eat the roasted grain of the new produce before that time (Lev. 23:14)
520. Not to eat fresh ears of the new grain before that time (Lev. 23:14)
521. To bring the Shavu’ot loaves of bread together with the sacrifices, which are then offered up in connection with the loaves (Lev. 23:17-20)
522. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Passover (Lev. 23:36)
523. That one who vows to the L*RD the monetary value of a person shall pay the amount appointed in the scriptural portion (Lev. 27:2-8)
524. If a beast is exchanged for one that had been set apart as an offering, both become sacred (Lev. 27:10)
525. Not to exchange a beast set aside for sacrifice (Lev. 27:10)
526. That one who vows to the L*RD the monetary value of an unclean beast, shall pay its value (Lev. 27:11-13)
527. That one who vows the value of his house shall pay according to the appraisal of the kohein (Lev. 27:11-13)
528. That one who sanctifies to the L*RD a portion of his field shall pay according to the estimation appointed in the Scriptural portion (Lev. 27:16-24)
529. Not to transfer a beast set apart for sacrifice from one class of sacrifices to another (Lev. 27:26)
530. To decide in regard to dedicated property as to which is sacred to the L*RD and which belongs to the kohein (Lev. 27:28)
531. Not to sell a field devoted to the L*RD (Lev. 27:28)
532. Not to redeem a field devoted to the L*RD (Lev. 27:28)
533. To make confession before the L*RD of any sin that one has committed, when bringing a sacrifice and at other times (Num. 5:6-7)
534. Not to out olive oil in the meal offering of a woman suspected of adultery (Num. 5-15)
535. Not to put frankincense on it (Num. 5:15)
536. To offer up the regular sacrifices daily (Num. 28:3)
537. To offer up an additional sacrifice every Shabbat (Num. 28:9)
538. To offer up an additional sacrifice every new moon (Num. 28:11)
539. To bring an additional offering on Shavu’ot (Num. 28:26, 27)
540. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Rosh Hashanah (Num. 29:1-6)
541. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Yom Kippur (Num. 29:7-8)
542. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Sukkot (Num. 29:12-34)
543. To offer up an additional offering on Shemini Atzeret (eighth day of Sukkot), which is a festival by itself (Num. 29:35-38)
544. To bring all offerings whether obligatory or freewill, on the first festival after these were incurred (Deut. 12:5, 6)
545. Not to offer up sacrifices outside the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:13)
546. To offer up all sacrifices in the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:14)
547. To redeem cattle set apart for sacrifices that contracted disqualifying blemishes, after which they be eaten by anyone (Deut. 12:15)
548. Not to eat of the unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
549. Not to eat the flesh of the burnt offering outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17) [36]
550. That the kohanim shall not eat the flesh of the sin offering or guilt offering outside the courtyard of the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:17)
551. Not to eat the flesh of the sacrifices that are holy in a minor degree, before the blood has been sprinkled on the altar (Deut. 12:17)
552. That the kohein shall not eat the first-fruits before they are set down in the Courtyard of the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:17)
553. To take trouble to bring sacrifices to the Sanctuary from places outside of the land of Israel (Deut. 12:26)
554. Not to eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that has been rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish (Deut. 14:3)
555. Not to do work with cattle set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15:19)
556. Not to shear beasts set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15:19)
557. Not to leave any portion of the festival offering brought on the fourteenth of Nissan (Abiv) until the third day (Deut. 16:4)
558. Not to offer up a beast that has a temporary blemish (Deut. 17:1)
559. Not to bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog (Deut. 23:19) [37]
560. To read the portion prescribed on bringing the first fruits (Deut. 26:5-10)
Ritual Purity and Impurity
561. That eight species of creeping things defile by contact (Lev. 11:29, 30)
562. That foods become defiled by contact with unclean things (Lev. 11:29, 30)
563. That anyone who touches the carcass of a beast that died of itself shall be unclean (Lev. 11:39)
564. That a lying- in woman (one who has given birth) is unclean like a menstruating woman (Lev.12:2-5)
565. That a leper is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:2-46)
566. That the leper shall be universally recognized as such by the prescribed marks; So too, all other unclean persons should declare themselves as such (Lev. 13:45)
567. That a leprous garment is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:47-49)
568. That a leprous house defiles (Lev. 14:34-46)
569. That a man having a running issue defiles (Lev. 15:1-15)
570. That the seed of copulation defiles (Lev. 15:16)
571. That purification from all kinds of defilement shall be effected by immersion in the waters of a mikvah (Lev. 15:16)
572. That a menstruating woman is unclean and defiles others (Lev. 15:19-24)
573. That a woman having a running issue, defiles (Lev. 15:25-27)
574. To carry out the ordinance of the red heifer so that its ashes will always be available (Num. 19:9)
575. That a corpse defiles (Num. 19:11-16)
576. That the waters of separation defile one who is clean, and cleanse the unclean from pollution by a dead body (Num. 19:19-22) [38]
Lepers and Leprosy
577. Not to drove off the hair of the skull (Lev. 13:33)
578. That the procedure of cleansing leprosy, whether of a man or of a house, takes place with cedar-wood, hyssop, scarlet thread, two birds, and running water (Lev. 14:1-7)
579. That the leper shall shave all his hair (Lev. 14:9)
580. To be careful to do all that the Levitical priests tell you to do, that they have been taught regarding leprosy (Deut. 24:8)
The King
581. Not to curse a ruler in your land [Ex. 22:28 (27)]
582. To appoint a king (Deut. 17:15)
583. Not to appoint as a ruler over Israel, one who is not an Israelite (Deut. 17:15)
584. That the king shall not acquire an excessive number of horses (Deut. 17:16)
585. That the king shall not take an excessive number of wives (Deut. 17:17)
586. That the king shall not acquire an excessive amount of gold and silver (Deut. 17:17)
587. That the king shall write for himself a Torah scroll in addition to the one that every person should write, so that he writes two scrolls (Deut. 17:18)
Nazarites
588. That a nazarite shall not drink wine, or anything mixed with wine which tastes like wine; and even if the wine or the mixture has turns sour, it is prohibited to him (Num. 6:3)
589. That he shall not eat fresh grapes (Num. 6:3)
590. That he shall not eat dried grapes (Num. 6:3)
591. That he shall not eat the kernels of the grapes (Num. 6:4)
592. That he shall not eat the skins of the grapes (Num. 6:4)
593. That the nazarite shall permit his hair to grow (Num. 6:5)
594. That the nazarite shall not cut his hair for the length of his vow (Num. 6:5)
595. That he shall not enter any covered structure where there is a dead body (Num. 6:6)
596. That a nazarite shall not defile himself for any dead person (by being in the presence of the corpse) (Num. 6:7)
597. That the nazarite shall shave his hair when he brings his offerings at the completion of the period of his vow, or within that period if he has become defiled (Num. 6:9)
Wars
598. That those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be panic-stricken by them during battle (Deut. 3:22; 7:21; 20:3)
599. To anoint a special kohein in a war to speak to the people (Deut. 20:2)
600. In a permissive war (as distinguished from obligatory ones), to observe the procedure prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 20:10)
601. Not to keep alive any individual of the seven Canaanite nations (Deut. 20:16)
602. To exterminate the seven Canaanite nations from the land of Israel (Deut. 20:17)
603. Not to destroy fruit trees during warfare (or wantonly) (Deut. 20:19, 20)
604. To deal with a woman or child taken captive, in the war in the manner prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 21:10-14)
605. Not to sell a woman taken captive in war (Deut. 21:14)
606. Not to degrade a woman taken captive in war to the condition of a bondwoman (Deut. 21:14)
607. Not to offer peace to the Ammonites and the Moabites before waging war on them, as should be done to other nations (Deut. 23:7)
608. That anyone who is unclean shall not enter the camp of the Levites (Deut. 23:11) [39]
609. To have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes (Deut. 23:13)
610. To keep that place sanitary (Deut. 23:14, 15)
611. Always to remember what Amalek did (Deut. 25:17)
612. That the evil done to us by Amalek shall not be forgotten (Deut. 25:19)
613. To destroy the seed of Amalek (Deut. 25:19)
1. This includes profaning His name, or breaking a vow taken in His name.
2. Tradition teaches that cleaving to scholars of the Torah (those who know Him) is the same as cleaving to Him.
3. Tradition teaches that this includes the interpretation of the written Torah as received by tradition. I do not think this is the intention HaShem has.
4. The Talmud teaches that the word “serve” in these verses refers to prayer.
5. By implication: if you cannot curse those who cannot hear, you certainly may not curse those who can.
6. Tradition teaches that this is obligatory and when we lend to a non- Israelite we must lend at interest, however I see no evidence for obligation in scripture, but rather that we are allowed to.
7. Rashi interprets this to mean that there shall not be a man or woman set aside and prepared for the purpose of promiscuous, illicit, or homosexual relations. This was common among pagan religions.
8. This is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of formal release of the next of kin by the widow.
9. Same as above.
10. This is not stated in the Torah directly, but is implied by other explicit commands that would include it.
11. While located with commands of offering in the Torah, the words “and you shall not do it your land” makes this command applicable in any situation.
12. Rashi states the true intention of this verse as follows:”...that this law [of the amas and techum of Shabbos] is not stated in the verse in explicit terms, -for the laws of the techumin are of rabbinic origin, and the essence of the verse was said with regard to those who gather the manna.” We can plainly see that gathering of manna is indeed the context of this verse, and not travel.
13. This word “humble” can legitimately be translated as “afflict” and so in tradition it is rendered as “fast” as a means to afflict oneself. Tradition therefore states that we must fast (neither eat nor drink) for Yom Kippur.
14. The four species to be offered for this festival of Sukkot are: the citron, a single branch of the date palm, myrtle, and willow.
15. Those which both bring up the cud and whose hooves are split.
16. Those which have both fins and scales.
17. Torah does not specifically give a clear way to define clean from unclean fowl except to list those that are specifically not allowed. However it is interesting to note that all those listed as not acceptable are all either predators or teem in swarms.
18. Those that fly low and creep- such as flies, wasps, non-kosher grasshoppers or locusts (for some are allowed) etc.
19. Although technically a law of sacrifice, we are still specifically commanded by Torah not to eat of the blood, and Lev. 17:11-14 explains that it is because the life of the flesh is in the blood and it for sacrifice for atonement only and not consumption.
20. Also mentioned in the verse for this command is not to rebel against father or mother, and tradition often equates the two.
21. This would cause the lender to sin.
22. Tradition teaches this as an obligation, even though the passage states “if you lend”.
23. A person who is poor in fulfilling the commandments.
24. While the command says “you shall not steal”, Talmud teaches that this verse refers stealing a person, as opposed to Lev. 19:11 which is referring to the theft of property.
25. This was commanded for the Israelites, if they found a person murdered on the road upon entering the land, and the person who did the slaying is unknown, they to perform a sacrifice of expiation, in the city nearest to the victims body.
26. This comes from rabbinic tradition, because some punishments were inflicted by fire, the kindling of which is forbidden on the Sabbath.
27. Tradition holds that the implication from this is also, that we are not to strike anyone.
28. Tradition teaches that this includes figures of ornamentation that are not worshipped.
29. Their dues should be given them as commanded, in order that they might participate in all the festivals.
30. Today it is still set aside, though not necessarily eaten in Jerusalem.
31. The Talmud teaches that today, this is not necessary outside of Israel, though some observant Jews still practice this command. However, scripture teaches, this was to be from the sacrificial offerings, whether they be Ox or Sheep, and without the Temple this is kind of moot.
32. Same principal as above.
33. Today’s application is toward the synagogues.
34. While tradition holds that this command is in regards to the Laws of Kashrut, and means we are not to eat dairy and meat products together, there is no scriptural evidence for this, and its placement within the Torah is obvious as a Law of sacrifice regarding agriculture. "The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk." Notice here the first half of this verse from the Exodus verses. No if we look at the verse in Deuteronomy 14:21 it may seem like a law of kashrut since that is the subject matter before the command, but if we read the following verse it jumps right into the first fruits offering again. It was ancient Pagan tradition and custom to take the kid of a goat and boil it in its own mother's milk, then sprinkle this mixture upon their fields in the hopes it would bring a more abundant and fertile crop for the harvest that year. Therefore I hold that as long we follow the basic essence of the command, any further observation beyond what is stated in the command is strictly up to the individual, using the guidance of the Ruach HaKodesh.
35. The traditional penalty for this is excision.
36. Tradition teaches that this is a prohibition applying to every trespasser, not to enjoy any of the Holy things. If he does so then he has committed a trespass.
37. Anything gained or received for the exchange of a dog or from the hire of a harlot, may not be used for the sacrifice. Tradition teaches that this does not include the purchase of something for sacrifice from the monies received from either of these two things.
38. These waters are made from the ashes of the red heifer (para adumah).
39. The Talmud teaches that today this means the temple mount.
