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Step 1: Select

Peruse the 613 mitzvot and select one that means something to you.

• G-d
• 1. Know that G-d exists
• 2. Do not entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal
• 3. Do not blaspheme
• 4. Hallow G-d’s name
• 5. Do not profane G-d’s name
• 6. Know that G-d is One, a complete Unity
• 7. Love G-d
• 8. Fear G-d reverently
• 9. Do not put the word of G-d to the test
• 10. Imitate G-d’s good and upright ways
• Torah
• 11. Honor the old and the wise
• 12. Learn Torah and teach it
• 13. Cleave to those who know God
• 14. Do not add to the commandments of the Torah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition
• 15. Do not take away from the commandments of the Torah
• 16. Every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for him or her self
• Signs & Symbols
• 17. Circumcise male offspring
• 18. Put tzitzit on the corners of clothing
• 19. Bind tefillin on the head
• 20. Bind tefillin on the arm
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• 21. Affix the mezuzah to the doorposts and gates of your house
• Prayer & Blessings
• 22. Pray to G-d
• 23. Read the Shema in the morning and at night
• 24. Recite grace after meals
• 25. Do not lay down a stone for worship
• Love & Brotherhood
• 26. Love all human beings who are of the covenant
• 27. Do not stand by idly when a human life is in danger
• 28. Do not wrong any one in speech
• 29. Do not carry tales
• 30. Do not cherish hatred in one’s heart
• 31. Do not take revenge
• 32. Do not bear a grudge
• 33. Do not put any Jew to shame
• 34. Do not curse any other Israelite
• 35. Do not give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road
• 36. Rebuke the sinner
• 37. Relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast
• 38. Assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor’s beast
• 39. Do not leave a beast that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided
• The Poor & Unfortunate
• 40. Do not afflict an orphan or a widow
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• 41. Do not reap the entire field
• 42. Leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor
• 43. Do not gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping)
• 44. Leave the gleanings for the poor
• 45. Do not gather ol’loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard
• 46. To leave ol’loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor
• 47. Do not gather the peret (grapes) that have fallen to the ground
• 48. Leave peret (the single grapes) of the vineyard for the poor
• 49. Do not return to take a forgotten sheaf
• 50. Leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor
• 51. Do not refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs
• 52. Give charity according to one’s means
• Treatment of Gentiles
• 53. Love the stranger
• 54. Do not wrong the stranger in speech
• 55. Do not wrong the stranger in buying or selling
• 56. Do not intermarry with gentiles
• 57. Exact the debt of an alien
• 58. Lend to an alien at interest
• Marriage, Divorce & Family
• 59. Honor father and mother
• 60. Do not smite a father or a mother
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• 61. Do not curse a father or mother
• 62. Reverently fear father and mother
• 63. Be fruitful and multiply
• 64. A eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel
• 65. A mamzer shall not marry the daughter of a Jew
• 66. An Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite
• 67. Do not exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations
• 68. Do not exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations
• 69. There shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage
• 70. Take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage
• 71. The newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice with his wife
• 72. 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
• 73. Do not withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife
• 74. The woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah
• 75. One who defames his wife’s honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime
• 76. A man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage)
• 77. Divorce by a formal written document
• 78. One who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man
• 79. A widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband’s brother
• 80. Marry the widow of a brother who has died childless
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• 81. The widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her)
• Forbidden Sexual Relations
• 82. Do not indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest
• 83. Do not commit incest with one’s mother
• 84. Do not commit sodomy with one’s father
• 85. Do not commit incest with one’s father’s wife
• 86. Do not commit incest with one’s sister
• 87. Do not commit incest with one’s father’s wife’s daughter
• 88. Do not commit incest with one’s son’s daughter
• 89. Do not commit incest with one’s daughter’s daughter
• 90. Do not commit incest with one’s daughter
• 91. Do not commit incest with one’s fathers sister
• 92. Do not commit incest with one’s mother’s sister
• 93. Do not commit incest with one’s father’s brothers wife
• 94. Do not commit sodomy with one’s father’s brother
• 95. Do not commit incest with one’s son’s wife
• 96. Do not commit incest with one’s brother’s wife
• 97. Do not commit incest with one’s wife’s daughter
• 98. Do not commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s son
• 99. Do not commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s daughter
• 100. Do not commit incest with one’s wife’s sister
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• 101. Do not have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period
• 102. Do not have intercourse with another man’s wife
• 103. Do not commit sodomy with a male
• 104. Do not have intercourse with a beast
• 105. A woman shall not have intercourse with a beast
• 106. Do not castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl
• Times & Seasons
• 107. The new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years shall be calculated by the Supreme Court only
• 108. Do not travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one’s place of residence
• 109. Sanctify Shabbat
• 110. Do not do work on Shabbat
• 111. Rest on Shabbat
• 112. Celebrate the festivals [Passover, Shavu’ot and Sukkot]
• 113. Rejoice on the festivals
• 114. Appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals
• 115. Remove chametz on the Eve of Passover
• 116. Rest on the first day of Passover
• 117. Do not do work on the first day of Passover
• 118. Rest on the seventh day of Passover
• 119. Do not do work on the seventh day of Passover
• 120. Eat matzah on the first night of Passover
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• 121. No chametz can be in the Israelite’s possession during Passover
• 122. Do not eat any food containing chametz on Passover
• 123. Do not eat chametz on Passover (Ex. 13:3) (CCN4). See Passover.
• 124. Chametz shall not be seen in an Israelite’s home during Passover
• 125. Discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover
• 126. Do not eat chametz after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan
• 127. Count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer (first sheaves of the barley harvest)
• 128. Rest on Shavu’ot
• 129. Do not do work on the Shavu’ot
• 130. Rest on Rosh Hashanah
• 131. Do not do work on Rosh Hashanah
• 132. Hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah
• 133. Fast on Yom Kippur
• 134. Do not eat or drink on Yom Kippur
• 135. Do not do work on Yom Kippur
• 136. Rest on Yom Kippur
• 137. Rest on the first day of Sukkot
• 138. Do not do work on the first day of Sukkot
• 139. Rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret)
• 140. Do not do work on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret)
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• 141. Take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants
• 142. Dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot
• Dietary Laws
• 143. Examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean)
• 144. Do not eat the flesh of unclean beasts
• 145. Examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean)
• 146. Do not eat unclean fish
• 147. Examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
• 148. Do not eat unclean fowl
• 149. Examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
• 150. Do not eat a worm found in fruit
• 151. Do not eat of things that creep upon the earth
• 152. Do not eat any vermin of the earth
• 153. Do not eat things that swarm in the water
• 154. Do not eat of winged insects
• 155. Do not eat the flesh of a beast that is terefah (lit torn)
• 156. Do not eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself
• 157. Slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten
• 158. Do not eat a limb removed from a living beast
• 159. Do not slaughter an animal and its young on the same day
• 160. Do not take the mother-bird with the young
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• 161. Set the mother-bird free when taking the nest
• 162. Do not eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned
• 163. Do not boil meat with milk
• 164. Do not eat flesh with milk
• 165. Do not eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank
• 166. Do not eat chelev (tallow-fat)
• 167. Do not eat blood
• 168. Cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed
• 169. Do not eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard
• Business Practices
• 170. Do not do wrong in buying or selling
• 171. Do not make a loan to an Israelite on interest
• 172. Do not borrow on interest
• 173. Do not 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
• 174. Lend to a poor person
• 175. Do not demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him
• 176. Do not take in pledge utensils used in preparing food
• 177. Do not exact a pledge from a debtor by force
• 178. Do not keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it
• 179. Return a pledge to its owner
• 180. Do not take a pledge from a widow
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• 181. Do not commit fraud in measuring
• 182. Ensure that scales and weights are correct
• 183. Do not possess inaccurate measures and weights
• Employees, Servants, & Slaves
• 184. Do not delay payment of a hired man’s wages
• 185. The hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping
• 186. The hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat
• 187. A hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested
• 188. Pay wages to the hired man at the due time
• 189. Deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him
• 190. Do not compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave
• 191. Do not sell a Hebrew servant as a slave
• 192. Do not treat a Hebrew servant rigorously
• 193. Do not permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him
• 194. Do not send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed from service
• 195. Bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of service), and the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman
• 196. Redeem a Hebrew maid-servant
• 197. Do not sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person
• 198. Espouse a Hebrew maid-servant
• 199. Keep the Canaanite slave forever
• 200. Do not surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Palestine
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• 201. Do not wrong such a slave
• 202. Do not muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy
• Vows, Oaths, & Swearing
• 203. A man should fulfill whatever he has uttered
• 204. Do not swear needlessly
• 205. Do not violate an oath or swear falsely
• 206. Decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah
• 207. Do not break a vow
• 208. To swear by Godâ€s name truly
• 209. Do not delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings
• The Sabbatical & Jubilee Years
• 210. Let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year
• 211. Cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year
• 212. Do not till the ground in the Sabbatical year
• 213. Do not do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year
• 214. Do not reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years
• 215. Do not gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years
• 216. Sound the Ram’s horn in the Sabbatical year
• 217. Release debts in the seventh year
• 218. Do not demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed
• 219. Do not refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year
• 220. Assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year
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• 221. Count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years
• 222. Keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow
• 223. Do not cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year
• 224. Do not reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years
• 225. Do not gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years
• 226. Grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year
• The Court & Judicial Procedure
• 227. Appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel
• 228. Do not 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
• 229. Adjudicate cases of purchase and sale
• 230. Judge cases of liability of a paid depositary
• 231. Adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable
• 232. Adjudicate cases of inheritances
• 233. Judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit
• 234. Judge cases of injuries caused by beasts
• 235. Adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle
• 236. Adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire
• 237. Adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary
• 238. Adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant
• 239. Do not curse a judge
• 240. One who possesses evidence shall testify in Court
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• 241. Do not testify falsely
• 242. A witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case
• 243. A transgressor shall not testify
• 244. The court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment
• 245. Do not hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party
• 246. Examine witnesses thoroughly
• 247. Do not decide a case on the evidence of a single witness
• 248. 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
• 249. Do not decide, in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal
• 250. In capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation
• 251. Treat parties in litigation with equal impartiality
• 252. Do not render iniquitous decisions
• 253. Do not favor a great man when trying a case
• 254. Do not take a bribe
• 255. Do not be afraid of a bad man, when trying a case
• 256. Do not be moved in trying a case, by the poverty of one of the parties
• 257. Do not pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans
• 258. Do not pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment of commandments)
• 259. Do not render a decision on one’s personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred
• 260. Do not execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial
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• 261. Accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel
• 262. Do not rebel against the orders of the Court
• Injuries & Damages
• 263. Make a parapet for your roof
• 264. Do not leave something that might cause hurt
• 265. Save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer
• 266. Do not spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness
• Property & Property Rights
• 267. Do not sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity
• 268. Do not change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; Do not sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time
• 269. Houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year
• 270. Do not remove landmarks (property boundaries)
• 271. Do not swear falsely in denial of another’s property rights
• 272. Do not deny falsely another’s property rights
• 273. Never settle in the land of Egypt
• 274. Do not steal personal property
• 275. Restore that which one took by robbery
• 276. Return lost property
• 277. Do not pretend to not have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it
• Criminal Laws
• 278. Do not slay an innocent person
• 279. Do not kidnap any person of Israel
• 280. Do not rob by violence
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• 281. Do not defraud
• 282. Do not covet what belongs to another
• 283. Do not crave something that belongs to another
• 284. Do not indulge in evil thoughts and sights
• Punishment & Restitution
• 285. The Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword
• 286. The Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation
• 287. The Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire
• 288. The Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning
• 289. Hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty
• 290. The dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night
• 291. Inter the executed on the day of execution
• 292. Do not accept ransom from a murderer
• 293. Exile one who committed accidental homicide
• 294. Establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental homicide)
• 295. Do not accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile
• 296. Decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered)
• 297. Do not plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer’s neck was broken)
• 298. Adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death
• 299. He who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation
• 300. Impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case
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• 301. The violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her
• 302. One who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her
• 303. Do not inflict punishment on Shabbat
• 304. Punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes
• 305. Do not exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment
• 306. Do not spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage
• 307. Do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused)
• 308. Do not punish any one who has committed an offense under duress
• Prophecy
• 309. Heed the call of every prophet in each generation, provided that he neither adds to, nor takes away from the Torah
• 310. Do not prophesy falsely
• 311. Do not refrain from putting a false prophet to death nor to be in fear of him
• Idolatry, Idolators, & Idolatrous Practices
• 312. Do not make a graven image; neither to make it oneself nor to have it made by others
• 313. Do not make any figures for ornament, even if they are not worshipped
• 314. Do not make idols even for others
• 315. Do not use the ornament of any object of idolatrous worship
• 316. Do not make use of an idol or its accessory objects, offerings, or libations
• 317. Do not drink wine of idolaters
• 318. Do not worship an idol in the way in which it is usually worshipped
• 319. Do not bow down to an idol, even if that is not its mode of worship
• 320. Do not prophesy in the name of an idol
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• 321. Do not hearken to one who prophesies in the name of an idol
• 322. Do not lead the children of Israel astray to idolatry
• 323. Do not entice an Israelite to idolatry
• 324. Destroy idolatry and its appurtenances
• 325. Do not love the enticer to idolatry
• 326. Do not give up hating the enticer to idolatry
• 327. Do not save the enticer from capital punishment, but to stand by at his execution
• 328. A person whom he attempted to entice to idolatry shall not urge pleas for the acquittal of the enticer
• 329. A person whom he attempted to entice shall not refrain from giving evidence of the enticer’s guilt, if he has such evidence
• 330. Do not swear by an idol to its worshipers, nor cause them to swear by it
• 331. Do not turn one’s attention to idolatry
• 332. Do not adopt the institutions of idolaters nor their customs
• 333. Do not pass a child through the fire to Molech
• 334. Do not suffer any one practicing witchcraft to live
• 335. Do not practice onein (observing times or seasons as favorable or unfavorable, using astrology)
• 336. Do not practice nachesh (doing things based on signs and portents; using charms and incantations)
• 337. Do not consult ovoth (ghosts)
• 338. Do not consult yid’onim (wizards)
• 339. Do not practice kisuf (magic using herbs, stones and objects that people use)
• 340. Do not practice kessem (a general term for magical practices)
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• 341. Do not practice the art of a chover chaver (casting spells over snakes and scorpions)
• 342. Do not enquire of an ob (a ghost)
• 343. Do not seek the maytim (dead)
• 344. Do not enquire of a yid’oni (wizard)
• 345. Do not remove the entire beard, like the idolaters
• 346. Do not round the corners of the head, as the idolatrous priests do
• 347. Do not cut oneself or make incisions in one’s flesh in grief, like the idolaters
• 348. Do not tattoo the body like the idolaters
• 349. Do not make a bald spot for the dead
• 350. Do not plant a tree for worship
• 351. Do not set up a pillar (for worship)
• 352. Do not show favor to idolaters
• 353. Do not make a covenant with the seven (Canaanite, idolatrous) nations
• 354. Do not settle idolaters in our land
• 355. Slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city
• 356. Do not rebuild a city that has been led astray to idolatry
• 357. Do not make use of the property of city that has been so led astray
• Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
• 358. Do not cross-breed cattle of different species
• 359. Do not sow different kinds of seed together in one field
• 360. Do not eat the fruit of a tree for three years from the time it was planted
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• 361. The fruit of fruit-bearing trees in the fourth year of their planting shall be sacred like the second tithe and eaten in Jerusalem
• 362. Do not sow grain or herbs in a vineyard
• 363. Do not eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard
• 364. Do not work with beasts of different species, yoked together
• Clothing
• 365. A man shall not wear women’s clothing
• 366. A woman should not wear men’s clothing
• 367. Do not wear garments made of wool and linen mixed together
• The Firstborn
• 368. Redeem the firstborn human male
• 369. Redeem the firstling of an ass
• 370. Break the neck of the firstling of an ass if it is not redeemed
• 371. Do not redeem the firstling of a clean beast
• Kohanim & Levites
• 372. The kohanim shall put on priestly vestments for the service
• 373. Do not tear the High Kohein’s robe
• 374. The kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary at all times (i.e., at times when he is not performing service)
• 375. The ordinary kohein shall not defile himself by contact with any dead, other than immediate relatives
• 376. 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
• 377. A kohein who had an immersion during the day (to cleanse him from his uncleanness) shall not serve in the Sanctuary until after sunset
• 378. A kohein shall not marry a divorced woman
• 379. A kohein shall not marry a harlot
• 380. A kohein shall not marry a profaned woman
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• 381. Show honor to a kohein, and to give him precedence in all things that are holy
• 382. A High Kohein shall not defile himself with any dead, even if they are relatives
• 383. A High Kohein shall not go (under the same roof) with a dead body
• 384. The High Kohein shall marry a virgin
• 385. The High Kohein shall not marry a widow
• 386. The High Kohein shall not cohabit with a widow, even without marriage, because he profanes her
• 387. A person with a physical blemish shall not serve (in the Sanctuary)
• 388. A kohein with a temporary blemish shall not serve there
• 389. A person with a physical blemish shall not enter the Sanctuary further than the altar
• 390. A kohein who is unclean shall not serve (in the Sanctuary)
• 391. Send the unclean out of the Camp of the Shechinah, that is, out of the Sanctuary
• 392. A kohein who is unclean shall not enter the courtyard
• 393. The kohanim shall bless Israel
• 394. Set apart a portion of the dough for the kohein
• 395. The Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that belongs to the kohanim, nor the kohanim with that belonging to the Levites
• 396. One not a descendant of Aaron in the male line shall not serve (in the Sanctuary)
• 397. The Levite shall serve in the Sanctuary
• 398. Give the Levites cities to dwell in, these to serve also as cities of refuge
• 399. None of the tribe of Levi shall take any portion of territory in the land (of Israel)
• 400. None of the tribe of Levi shall take any share of the spoil (at the conquest of the Promised Land)
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• 401. The kohanim shall serve in the Sanctuary in divisions, but on festivals, they all serve together
• T’rumah, Tithes, & Taxes
• 402. An uncircumcised person shall not eat of the t’rumah (heave offering), and the same applies to other holy things.
• 403. Do not alter the order of separating the t’rumah and the tithes; the separation be in the order first-fruits at the beginning, then the t’rumah, then the first tithe, and last the second tithe
• 404. Give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices)
• 405. A kohein who is unclean shall not eat of the t’rumah
• 406. A person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohein shall not eat of the t’rumah
• 407. A sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the t’rumah
• 408. Do not eat tevel (something from which the t’rumah and tithe have not yet been separated)
• 409. Set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after taking out t’rumah) for the Levites
• 410. Tithe cattle
• 411. Do not sell the tithe of the herd
• 412. The Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had received from the Israelites, and give it to the kohanim (called the t’rumah of the tithe)
• 413. Do not eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem
• 414. Do not consume the second tithe of the vintage outside of Jerusalem
• 415. Do not consume the second tithe of the oil outside of Jerusalem
• 416. Do not forsake the Levites (Deut. 12:19); but their gifts (dues) should be given to them, so that they might rejoice therewith on each and every festival
• 417. 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
• 418. Set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the sabbatical cycle for the poor
• 419. Give the kohein the due portions of the carcass of cattle
• 420. Give the first of the fleece to the kohein (Deut. 18:4)
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• 421. 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)
• 422. Do not expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food and drink
• 423. Do not eat the Second Tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of uncleanness, until the tithe had been redeemed
• 424. Do not eat the Second Tithe, when mourning
• 425. Make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the Sanctuary
• The Temple, the Sanctuary, & Sacred Objects
• 426. Do not build an altar of hewn stone
• 427. Do not mount the altar by steps
• 428. Build the Sanctuary
• 429. Do not remove the staves from the Ark
• 430. Set the showbread and the frankincense before the Lord every Shabbat
• 431. Kindle lights in the Sanctuary
• 432. The breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod
• 433. Offer up incense twice daily
• 434. Do not offer strange incense nor any sacrifice upon the golden altar
• 435. The kohein shall wash his hands and feet at the time of service
• 436. Prepare the oil of anointment and anoint high kohanim and kings with it
• 437. Do not compound oil for lay use after the formula of the anointing oil
• 438. Do not anoint a stranger with the anointing oil
• 439. Do not compound anything after the formula of the incense
• 440. He who, in error, makes unlawful use of sacred things, shall make restitution of the value of his trespass and add a fifth
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• 441. Remove the ashes from the altar
• 442. Keep fire always burning on the altar of the burnt-offering
• 443. Do not extinguish the fire on the altar
• 444. A kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with disheveled hair
• 445. A kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with torn garments
• 446. The kohein shall not leave the Courtyard of the Sanctuary, during service
• 447. An intoxicated person shall not enter the Sanctuary nor give decisions in matters of the Law
• 448. Revere the Sanctuary
• 449. When the Ark is carried, it should be carried on the shoulder
• 450. Observe the second Passover
• 451. Eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb on it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs
• 452. Do not leave any flesh of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover until the morning
• 453. Do not break a bone of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover
• 454. Sound the trumpets at the offering of sacrifices and in times of trouble
• 455. Watch over the edifice continually
• 456. Do not allow the Sanctuary to remain unwatched
• 457. An offering shall be brought by one who has in error committed a trespass against sacred things, or robbed, or lain carnally with a bond-maid betrothed to a man, or denied what was deposited with him and swore falsely to support his denial.
• 458. Do not destroy anything of the Sanctuary, of synagogues, or of houses of study, nor erase the holy names (of God); nor may sacred scriptures be destroyed
• Sacrifices & Offerings
• 459. Sanctify the firstling of clean cattle and offer it up
• 460. Slay the Paschal lamb
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• 461. Eat the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan
• 462. Do not eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb raw or sodden
• 463. Do not leave any portion of the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice until the morning unconsumed
• 464. Do not give the flesh of the Paschal lamb to an Israelite who had become an apostate
• 465. Do not give flesh of the Paschal lamb to a stranger who lives among you to eat
• 466. Do not take any of the flesh of the Paschal lamb from the company’s place of assembly
• 467. Do not break a bone of the Paschal lamb
• 468. The uncircumcised shall not eat of the flesh of the Paschal lamb
• 469. Do not slaughter the Paschal lamb while there is chametz in the home
• 470. Do not leave the part of the Paschal lamb that should be burnt on the altar until the morning, when it will no longer be fit to be burnt
• 471. Do not go up to the Sanctuary for the festival without bringing an offering (Ex. 23:15) (negative).
• 472. Bring the first fruits to the Sanctuary
• 473. The flesh of a sin-offering and guilt-offering shall be eaten
• 474. One not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat the flesh of the holy sacrifices
• 475. Observe the procedure of the burnt-offering
• 476. Observe the procedure of the meal-offering
• 477. Do not offer up leaven or honey
• 478. Every sacrifice must be salted
• 479. Do not offer up any offering unsalted
• 480. The Court of Judgment shall offer up a sacrifice if they have erred in a judicial pronouncement
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• 481. An individual shall bring a sin-offering if he has sinned in error by committing a transgression, the conscious violation of which is punished with excision
• 482. Offer a sacrifice of varying value in accordance with one’s means
• 483. Do not sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin-offering
• 484. Do not put olive oil in a sin-offering made of flour
• 485. Do not put frankincense on a sin-offering made of flour
• 486. An individual shall bring an offering if he is in doubt as to whether he has committed a sin for which one has to bring a sin-offering. This is called a guilt-offering for doubtful sins
• 487. The remainder of the meal offerings shall be eaten
• 488. Do not allow the remainder of the meal offerings to become leavened
• 489. The High Kohein shall offer a meal offering daily
• 490. Do not eat of the meal offering brought by the kohanim
• 491. Oserve the procedure of the sin-offering
• 492. Do not eat of the flesh of sin offerings, the blood of which is brought within the Sanctuary and sprinkled towards the Veil
• 493. Observe the procedure of the guilt-offering
• 494. Observe the procedure of the peace-offering
• 495. Burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has remained over
• 496. Do not eat of sacrifices that are eaten beyond the appointed time for eating them
• 497. Do not eat of holy things that have become unclean
• 498. Burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has become unclean
• 499. 499.A person who is unclean shall not eat of things that are holy
• 500. A kohein’s daughter 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
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• 501. A woman after childbirth shall bring an offering when she is clean
• 502. The leper shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed
• 503. A man having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed of his issue
• 504. A woman having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after she is cleansed of her issue
• 505. Observe, on Yom Kippur, the service appointed for that day, regarding the sacrifice, confessions, sending away of the scapegoat, etc.
• 506. Do not slaughter beasts set apart for sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary)
• 507. Do not eat flesh of a sacrifice that has been left over (beyond the time appointed for its consumption)
• 508. Do not sanctify blemished cattle for sacrifice on the altar
• 509. Every animal offered up shall be without blemish
• 510. Do not inflict a blemish on cattle set apart for sacrifice
• 511. Do not slaughter blemished cattle as sacrifices
• 512. Do not burn the limbs of blemished cattle upon the altar
• 513. Do not sprinkle the blood of blemished cattle upon the altar
• 514. Do not offer up a blemished beast that comes from non-Israelites
• 515. Sacrifices of cattle can only take place when they are at least eight days old
• 516. Do not leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering until the morning
• 517. Offer up the meal-offering of the Omer on the morrow after the first day of Passover, together with one lamb
• 518. Do not eat bread made of new grain before the Omer of barley has been offered up on the second day of Passover
• 519. Do not eat roasted grain of the new produce before that time
• 520. Do not eat fresh ears of the new grain before that time
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• 521. Bring on Shavu’ot loaves of bread together with the sacrifices which are then offered up in connection with the loaves
• 522. Offer up an additional sacrifice on Passover
• 523. One who vows to the Lord the monetary value of a person shall pay the amount appointed in the Scriptural portion
• 524. If a beast is exchanged for one that had been set apart as an offering, both become sacred
• 525. Do not exchange a beast set aside for sacrifice
• 526. One who vows to the Lord the monetary value of an unclean beast shall pay its value
• 527. One who vows the value of his house shall pay according to the appraisal of the kohein
• 528. One who sanctifies to the Lord a portion of his field shall pay according to the estimation appointed in the Scriptural portion
• 529. Do not transfer a beast set apart for sacrifice from one class of sacrifices to another
• 530. Decide in regard to dedicated property as to which is sacred to the Lord and which belongs to the kohein
• 531. Do not sell a field devoted to the Lord
• 532. Do not redeem a field devoted to the Lord
• 533. Make confession before the Lord of any sin that one has committed, when bringing a sacrifice and at other times
• 534. Do not put olive oil in the meal-offering of a woman suspected of adultery
• 535. Do not put frankincense on the meal-offering of a woman suspected of adultery
• 536. Offer up the regular sacrifices daily (two lambs as burnt offerings)
• 537. Offer up an additional sacrifice every Shabbat (two lambs)
• 538. Offer up an additional sacrifice every New Moon
• 539. Bring an additional offering on Shavu’ot
• 540. Offer up an additional sacrifice on Rosh Hashanah
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• 541. Offer up an additional sacrifice on Yom Kippur
• 542. Offer up an additional sacrifice on Sukkot
• 543. Offer up an additional offering on Shemini Atzeret, which is a festival by itself
• 544. Bring all offerings, whether obligatory or freewill, on the first festival after these were incurred
• 545. Do not offer up sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary)
• 546. Offer all sacrifices in the Sanctuary
• 547. Redeem cattle set apart for sacrifices that contracted disqualifying blemishes, after which they may be eaten by anyone.
• 548. Do not eat of the unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem
• 549. Do not eat the flesh of the burnt-offering (Deut. 12:17).
• 550. The kohanim shall not eat the flesh of the sin-offering or guilt-offering outside the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary)
• 551. Do not eat of the flesh of the sacrifices that are holy in a minor degree, before the blood has been sprinkled (on the altar),
• 552. The kohein shall not eat the first-fruits before they are set down in the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary)
• 553. Take trouble to bring sacrifices to the Sanctuary from places outside the land of Israel
• 554. Do not eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that have been rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish
• 555. Do not do work with cattle set apart for sacrifice
• 556. Do not shear beasts set apart for sacrifice
• 557. Do not leave any portion of the festival offering brought on the fourteenth of Nissan unto the third day
• 558. Do not offer up a beast that has a temporary blemish
• 559. Do not bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog
• 560. Read the portion prescribed on bringing the first fruits
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• Ritual Purity & Impurity
• 561. Eight species of creeping things defile by contact
• 562. Foods become defiled by contact with unclean things
• 563. Anyone who touches the carcass of a beast that died of itself shall be unclean
• 564. A lying-in woman is unclean like a menstruating woman (in terms of uncleanness)
• 565. A leper is unclean and defiles
• 566. A leper shall be universally recognized as such by the prescribed marks. So too, all other unclean persons should declare themselves as such
• 567. A leprous garment is unclean and defiles
• 568. A leprous house defiles
• 569. A man, having a running issue, defiles
• 570. The seed of copulation defiles
• 571. Purification from all kinds of defilement shall be effected by immersion in the waters of a mikvah
• 572. A menstruating woman is unclean and defiles others
• 573. A woman, having a running issue, defiles
• 574. Carry out the ordinance of the Red Heifer so that its ashes will always be available
• 575. A corpse defiles
• 576. The waters of separation defile one who is clean, and cleanse the unclean from pollution by a dead body
• Lepers & Leprosy
• 577. Do not drive off the hair of the scall
• 578. 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
• 579. The leper shall shave all his hair
• 580. Do not pluck out the marks of leprosy
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• The King
• 581. Do not curse a ruler, that is, the King or the head of the College in the land of Israel
• 582. Appoint a king
• 583. Do not appoint as ruler over Israel, one who comes from non-Israelites
• 584. The King shall not acquire an excessive number of horses
• 585. The King shall not take an excessive number of wives
• 586. The King shall not accumulate an excessive quantity of gold and silver
• 587. The King shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself, in addition to the one that every person should write, so that he writes two scrolls
• Nazarites
• 588. A Nazarite shall not drink wine, or anything mixed with wine which tastes like wine; and even if the wine or the mixture has turned sour, it is prohibited to him
• 589. A Nazarite shall not eat fresh grapes
• 590. A Nazarite shall not eat dried grapes (raisins)
• 591. A Nazarite shall not eat the kernels of the grapes
• 592. A Nazarite shall not eat of the skins of the grapes
• 593. A Nazarite shall permit his hair to grow
• 594. A Nazarite shall not cut his hair
• 595. A Nazarite shall not enter any covered structure where there is a dead body
• 596. A Nazarite shall not defile himself for any dead person (by being in the presence of the corpse)
• 597. A Nazarite shall shave his hair when he brings his offerings at the completion of the period of his Nazariteship, or within that period if he has become defiled
• Wars
• 598. Those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be panic-stricken by them during battle
• 599. Annoint a special kohein (to speak to the soldiers) in a war
• 600. In a permissive war (as distinguished from obligatory ones), observe the procedure prescribed in the Torah
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• 601. Do not keep alive any individual of the seven Canaanite nations
• 602. Exterminate the seven Canaanite nations from the land of Israel
• 603. Do not destroy fruit trees (wantonly or in warfare)
• 604. Deal with a beautiful woman taken captive in war in the manner prescribed in the Torah
• 605. Do not sell a beautiful woman, (taken captive in war)
• 606. Do not degrade a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) to the condition of a bondwoman
• 607. Do not offer peace to the Ammonites and the Moabites before waging war on them, as should be done to other nations
• 608. Anyone who is unclean shall not enter the Camp of the Levites
• 609. Have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes
• 610. Keep that place sanitary
• 611. Always to remember what Amalek did
• 612. The evil done to us by Amalek shall not be forgotten
• 613. Destroy the seed of Amalek
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