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P155. Proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbos<br>
 
P155. Proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbos<br>
 
P156. Removal of chometz on Pesach<br>
 
P156. Removal of chometz on Pesach<br>
P157. Recounting Exodus from Egypt on first night of Pesach<br>
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P158. Eating Matzah on the first night of Pesach<br>
 
P159. Resting on the first day of Pesach<br>
 
P160. Resting on the seventh day of Pesach<br>
 
P161. Counting the Omer<br>
 
P162. Resting on Shavuos<br>
 
P163. Resting on Rosh Hashana<br>
 
P164. Fasting on Yom Kippur<br>
 
P165. Resting on Yom Kippur<br>
 
P166. Resting on the first day of Sukkos<br>
 
P167. Resting on Shemini Atzeres<br>
 
P168. Dwelling in a Sukkah for seven days<br>
 
P169. Taking a Lulav on Sukkos<br>
 
P170. Hearing a Shofar on Rosh Hashana<br>
 
P171. Giving half a shekel annually<br>
 
P172. Heeding the Prophets<br>
 
P173. Appointing a King<br>
 
P174. Obeying the Great Court<br>
 
P175. Abiding by a majority decision<br>
 
P176. Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court<br>
 
P177. Treating litigants equally before the law<br>
 
P178. Testifying in Court<br>
 
P179. Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses<br>
 
P180. Condemning witnesses who testify falsely<br>
 
P181. Eglah Arufah<br>
 
P182. Establishing Six Cities of Refuge<br>
 
P183. Assigning cities to the Levi'im<br>
 
P184. Building fences on roof; and removing sources of danger from our dwellings<br>
 
P185. Destroying all idol-worship<br>
 
P186. The law of the apostate city<br>
 
P187. The law of the Seven Nations<br>
 
P188. The extinction of the seed of Amalek<br>
 
P189. Remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek<br>
 
P190. The law of the non-obligatory war<br>
 
P191. Appoint a Kohein to speak to the people going to war and send back any man unfit for battle<br>
 
P192. Preparing a place beyond the camp<br>
 
P193. Including a digging tool among war implements<br>
 
P194. A robber to restore the stolen article<br>
 
P195. To give charity<br>
 
P196. Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bondman on his freedom<br>
 
P197. Lending money to the poor<br>
 
P198. Lending money to the heathen with interest<br>
 
P199. Restoring a pledge to a needy owner<br>
 
P200. Paying wages on time<br>
 
P201. An employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in<br>
 
P202. Unloading a tired animal<br>
 
P203. Assisting the owner in loading his burden<br>
 
P204. Returning lost property to its owner<br>
 
P205. Rebuking the sinner<br>
 
P206. Loving our Fellow Jew<br>
 
P207. Loving the convert<br>
 
P208. The law of weights and measures<br>
 
P209. Honoring scholars<br>
 
P210. Honoring parents<br>
 
P211. Fearing parents<br>
 
P212. Be fruitful and multiply<br>
 
P213. The law of marriage<br>
 
P214. Bridegroom devotes himself to his wife for one year<br>
 
P215. Circumcising one's son<br>
 
P216. Law of the Levirite Marriage<br>
 
P217. Law of Chalitzah<br>
 
P218. A violator must marry the maiden he has violated<br>
 
P219. The law of the defamer of his bride<br>
 
P220. The law of the seducer<br>
 
P221. The law of the captive woman<br>
 
P222. The law of divorce<br>
 
P223. The law of a suspected adulteress<br>
 
P224. Whipping transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P225. The law of unintentional manslaughter<br>
 
P226. Beheading transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P227. Strangling transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P228. Burning transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P229. Stoning transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P230. Hanging after execution, transgressors of certain commandments<br>
 
P231. Burial on the day of execution<br>
 
P232. The law of the Hebrew bondman<br>
 
P233. Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son<br>
 
P234. Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid<br>
 
P235. The law of a Canaanite bondman<br>
 
P236. Penalty of inflicting injury<br>
 
P237. The law of injuries caused by an ox<br>
 
P238. The law of injuries caused by an pit<br>
 
P239. The law of theft<br>
 
P240. The law of damage caused by a beast<br>
 
P241. The law of damage caused by a fire<br>
 
P242. The law of an unpaid bailee<br>
 
P243. The law of a paid bailee<br>
 
P244. The law of a borrower<br>
 
P245. The law of buying and selling<br>
 
P246. The law of litigants<br>
 
P247. Saving the life of the pursued<br>
 
P248. The law of inheritance<br>
 
  
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N1. Not believing in any other G-d<br>
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N2. Not to make images for the purpose of worship<br>
 
N3. Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship<br>
 
N4. Not to make figures of human beings<br>
 
N5. Not to bow down to an idol<br>
 
N6. Not to worship idols<br>
 
N7. Not to hand over any children to Moloch<br>
 
N8. Not to practice sorcery of the ov<br>
 
N9. Not to practice sorcery of the yidde'oni<br>
 
N10. Not to study idolatrous practices<br>
 
N11. Not to erect a pillar which people will assemble to honor<br>
 
N12. Not to make figured stones on which to prostrate ourselves<br>
 
N13. Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary<br>
 
N14. Not to swear by an idol<br>
 
N15. Not to divert people to idolatry<br>
 
N16. Not to try to persuade an Israelite to worship idols<br>
 
N17. Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols<br>
 
N18. Not to relax one's aversion to the misleader<br>
 
N19. Not to save the life of a misleader<br>
 
N20. Not to plead for the misleader<br>
 
N21. Not to oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader<br>
 
N22. No benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol<br>
 
N23. Not rebuilding an apostate city<br>
 
N24. Not deriving benefit from property of an apostate city<br>
 
N25. Not increasing wealth from anything connected with idolatry<br>
 
N26. Not prophesying in the name of an idol<br>
 
N27. Not prophesying falsely<br>
 
N28. Not to listen to the prophesy made in the name of an idol<br>
 
N29. Not fearing or refraining from killing a false prophet<br>
 
N30. Not adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers<br>
 
N31. Not practicing divination<br>
 
N32. Not regulating one's conduct by the stars<br>
 
N33. Not practicing the art of the soothsayer<br>
 
N34. Not practicing sorcery<br>
 
N35. Not practicing the art of the charmer<br>
 
N36. Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov<br>
 
N37. Not consulting a sorcerer who uses the ydo'a<br>
 
N38. Not to seek information from the dead<br>
 
N39. Women not to wear men's clothes or adornments<br>
 
N40. Men not wearing women's clothes or adornments<br>
 
N41. Not imprinting any marks on our bodies<br>
 
N42. Not wearing Shatnes (mixture of wool and linen)<br>
 
N43. Not shaving the temples of the head<br>
 
N45. Not making cuttings in our flesh<br>
 
N46. Not settling in the land of Egypt<br>
 
N47. Not to follow one's heart or eyes<br>
 
N48. Not to make a covenant with the Seven Nations of Canaan<br>
 
N49. Not to spare the life of the Seven Nations<br>
 
N50. Not to show mercy to idolaters<br>
 
N51. Not to allow idolaters to settle in our land<br>
 
N52. Not to intermarry with a heretic<br>
 
N53. Not to intermarry with a male from Ammon or Moav<br>
 
N54. Not to exclude the descendants of Esav<br>
 
N55. Not to exclude the descendants of Egyptians<br>
 
N56. Not offering peace to Ammon and Moav<br>
 
N57. Not destroying fruit trees in time of siege<br>
 
N58. Not fearing heretics in time of war<br>
 
N59. Not forgetting what Amalek did to us<br>
 
N60. Not blaspheming the Great Name<br>
 
N61. Not violating a shevuas bittui (oath of utterance)<br>
 
N62. Not swearing a shevuas shav (vain oath)<br>
 
N63. Not profaning the Name of G-d<br>
 
N64. Not testing His promises and warnings<br>
 
N65. Not to break down houses of worship or to destroy holy books<br>
 
N66. Not leaving the body of an executed criminal hanging overnight<br>
 
N67. Not to interrupt the watch over the Sanctuary<br>
 
N68. Kohein Gadol may not enter Sanctuary at any but prescribed times<br>
 
N69. Kohein with blemish not to enter Sanctuary from Altar inwards<br>
 
N70. Kohein with a blemish not to minister in the Sanctuary<br>
 
N71. Kohein with a temporary blemish not to minister in Sanctuary<br>
 
N72. Levites and Kohanim not perform each other's allotted services<br>
 
N73. Not to be intoxicated when entering Sanctuary; and not to be intoxicated when giving a decision on Torah law<br>
 
N74. Zar (non-kohein) not to minister in Sanctuary<br>
 
N75. Tameh Kohein not to minister in Sanctuary<br>
 
N76. Kohein who is tevul yom, not to minister in Sanctuary<br>
 
N77. Tameh person not to enter any part of Sanctuary<br>
 
N78. Tameh person not to enter camp of Levites<br>
 
N79. Not to build an Altar of stones which were touched by iron<br>
 
N80. Not to ascend the Altar by steps<br>
 
N81. Not to extinguish the Altar fire<br>
 
N82. Not to offer any sacrifice whatever on the Golden Altar<br>
 
N83. Not to make oil like the Oil of Anointment<br>
 
N84. Not anoint anyone with special oil except Kohein Gadol and King<br>
 
N85. Not to make incense like used in Sanctuary<br>
 
N86. Not to remove the staves from their rings in the Ark<br>
 
N87. Not to remove the Breastplate from the Ephod<br>
 
N88. Not to tear the edge of the Kohein Gadol's robe<br>
 
N89. Not to offer sacrifices outside the Sanctuary Court<br>
 
N90. Not to slaughter holy offerings outside the Sanctuary Court<br>
 
N91. Not to dedicate a blemished animal to be offered on the Altar<br>
 
N92. Not to slaughter a blemished animal as a korban<br>
 
N93. Not to dash the blood of a blemished beast on the Altar<br>
 
N94. Not to burn the sacrificial portions of blemished beast on Altar<br>
 
N95. Not to sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish<br>
 
N96. Not to offer a blemished sacrifice of a gentile<br>
 
N97. Not to cause an offering to become blemished<br>
 
N98. Not to offer leaven or honey upon the Altar<br>
 
N99. Not to offer a sacrifice without salt<br>
 
N100. Not to offer on Altar the "hire of a harlot" or "price of a dog"<br>
 
N101. Not to slaughter the mother and her young on the same day<br>
 
N102. Not to put olive oil on the meal-offering of a sinner<br>
 
N103. Not to put frankincense the meal-offering of a sinner<br>
 
N104. Not mingle olive oil with meal-offering of suspected adulteress<br>
 
N105. Not put frankincense on meal-offering of suspected adulteress<br>
 
N106. Not to change a beast that has been consecrated as an offering<br>
 
N107. Not to change one's holy offering for another<br>
 
N108. Not to redeem the firstling (of a clean beast)<br>
 
N109. Not to sell the tithe of cattle<br>
 
N110. Not to sell devoted property<br>
 
N111. Not redeem devoted land without specific statement of purpose<br>
 
N112. Not to sever the head of the bird of Sin-offering during melikah<br>
 
N113. Not to do any work with a dedicated beast<br>
 
N114. Not to shear a dedicated beast<br>
 
N115. Not slaughter the Korban Pesach while chometz in our possession<br>
 
N116. Not leave any sacrificial portions of Korban Pesach overnight<br>
 
N117. Not allow meat of Korban Pesach to remain till morning<br>
 
N118. Not allow meat of 14 Nissan Festival Offering remain till day 3. br>
 
N119. Not allow meat of Pesach Sheini offering to remain till morning<br>
 
N120. Not allow meat of thanksgiving offering to remain till morning<br>
 
N121. Not to break any bones of Pesach offering<br>
 
N122. Not to break any bones of Pesach Sheini offering<br>
 
N123. Not to remove Pesach offering from where it is eaten<br>
 
N124. Not to bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven<br>
 
N125. Not to eat the Pesach offering boiled or raw<br>
 
N126. Not to allow a ger toshav to eat the Pesach offering<br>
 
N127. An uncircumcised person may not eat the Pesach offering<br>
 
N128. Not to allow an apostate Israelite to eat the Pesach offering<br>
 
N129. Tameh person may not eat hallowed food<br>
 
N130. Not to eat meat of consecrated offerings which have become tameh<br>
 
N131. Not eating nosar (beyond allotted time)<br>
 
N132. Not eating piggul (improper intentions)<br>
 
N133. A zar may not eat terumah<br>
 
N134. A Kohein's tenant or hired servant may not eat terumah<br>
 
N135. An uncircumcised Kohein may not eat terumah<br>
 
N136. Tameh Kohein may not eat terumah<br>
 
N137. A chalalah may not eat holy food<br>
 
N138. Not to eat the meal-offering of a Kohein<br>
 
N139. Not eat Sin-offering meat whose blood was brought into Sanctuary<br>
 
N140. Not to eat the invalidated consecrated offerings<br>
 
N141. Not to eat unredeemed 2nd tithe of corn outside Yerushalayim<br>
 
N142. Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of wine outside Yerushalayim<br>
 
N143. Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of oil outside Yerushalayim<br>
 
N144. Not eating an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim<br>
 
N145. Not eat sin-offering and guilt-offering outside Sanctuary court<br>
 
N146. Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering<br>
 
N147. Not eat lesser holy offerings before blood dashed on Altar<br>
 
N148. A zar not to eat the most holy offerings<br>
 
N149. Kohein not to eat first fruits outside Yerushalayim<br>
 
N150. Not eating an unredeemed tameh 2nd tithe, even in Yerushalatim<br>
 
N151. Not eating the 2nd tithe in mourning<br>
 
N152. Not spend 2nd tithe redemption money, except on food and drink<br>
 
N153. Not eating tevel(produce heave-offering and tithes not taken)<br>
 
N154. Not altering the prescribed order of harvest tithing<br>
 
N155. Not to delay payment of vows<br>
 
N156. Not to appear in Sanctuary on festival without sacrifice<br>
 
N157. Not to infringe on any oral obligation, even if without an oath<br>
 
N158. Kohein may not marry a zonah<br>
 
N159. Kohein may not marry a chalalah<br>
 
N160. Kohein may not marry a divorcee<br>
 
N161. Kohein Gadol may not marry a widow<br>
 
N162. Kohein Gadol may not have relations with a widow<br>
 
N163. Kohein with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary<br>
 
N164. Kohein wearing rent garments may not enter Sanctuary<br>
 
N165. Ministering Kohanim may not leave the Sanctuary<br>
 
N166. Common Kohein may not defile himself for dead (except some)<br>
 
N167. Kohein Gadol may not be under one roof with dead body<br>
 
N168. Kohein Gadol may not defile himself for any dead person<br>
 
N169. Levites may not take a share of the land<br>
 
N170. Levites may not share in the spoil on conquest of the Land<br>
 
N171. Not to tear out hair for the dead<br>
 
N172. Not to eat any unclean animal<br>
 
N173. Not to eat any unclean fish<br>
 
N174. Not to eat any unclean fowl<br>
 
N175. Not to eat any swarming winged insect<br>
 
N176. Not to eat anything which swarms on the earth<br>
 
N177. Not to eat any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter<br>
 
N178. Not to eat living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit<br>
 
N179. Not to eat any swarming thing<br>
 
N180. Not to eat any animal which is a nevelah<br>
 
N181. Not to eat an animal which is a treifah<br>
 
N182. Not to eat a limb of a living animal<br>
 
N183. Not to eat the gid hanasheh (sinew of the thigh-vein)<br>
 
N184. Not to eat blood<br>
 
N185. Not to eat the fat of a clean animal<br>
 
N186. Not to cook meat in milk<br>
 
N187. Not to eat meat cooked in milk<br>
 
N188. Not to eat the flesh of a stoned ox<br>
 
N189. Not to eat bread made from grain of new crop<br>
 
N190. Not to eat roasted grain of the new crop<br>
 
N191. Not to eat fresh ears of grain<br>
 
N192. Not to eat orlah<br>
 
N193. Not to eat kilai hakerem<br>
 
N194. Not to drink yayin nesach (libation wine for idol worship)<br>
 
N195. No eating or drinking to excess<br>
 
N196. Not to eat on Yom Kippur<br>
 
N197. Not to eat chometz on Pesach<br>
 
N198. Not to eat an admixture of chometz on Pesach<br>
 
N199. Not to eat chometz after noon of 14 Nissan<br>
 
N200. No chametz may be seen in our homes during Pesach<br>
 
N201. Not to possess chametz during Pesach<br>
 
N202. A Nazir may not drink wine<br>
 
N203. A Nazir may not eat fresh grapes<br>
 
N204. A Nazir may not eat dried grapes<br>
 
N205. A Nazir may not eat grape kernels<br>
 
N206. A Nazir may not eat grape husks<br>
 
N207. A Nazir may not rend himself tameh for the dead<br>
 
N208. A Nazir may not rend himself tameh by entering house with corpse<br>
 
N209. A Nazir may not shave<br>
 
N210. Not to reap all harvest without leaving a corner for the poor<br>
 
N211. Not to gather ears of corn that fell during harvesting<br>
 
N212. Not to gather the whole produce of vineyard at vintage time<br>
 
N213. Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage<br>
 
N214. Not to return for a forgotten sheaf<br>
 
N215. Not to sow kilayim (diverse kinds of seed in one field)<br>
 
N216. Not to sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard<br>
 
N217. Not to make animals of different species<br>
 
N218. Not to work with two different kinds of animals together<br>
 
N219. Not preventing a beast from eating the produce where working<br>
 
N220. Not to cultivate the soil in the seventh year<br>
 
N221. Not to prune the trees in the seventh year<br>
 
N222. Not reap a self-grown plant in the 7th year as in ordinary year<br>
 
N223. Not gather self-grown fruit in the 7th year as in ordinary year<br>
 
N224. Not to cultivate the soil in the Jubilee year<br>
 
N225. Not to reap the aftergrowths of Jubilee year as in ordinary year<br>
 
N226. Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year<br>
 
N227. Not to sell out holdings in Eretz Yisroel in perpetuity<br>
 
N228. No to sell the open lands of the Levites<br>
 
N229. Not to forsake the Levites<br>
 
N230. Not to demand payment of debts after Shmitah year<br>
 
N231. Not to withhold a loan to be canceled by the Shmitah year<br>
 
N232. Failing to give charity to our needy brethren<br>
 
N233. Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed<br>
 
N234. Not demanding payment from a debtor known unable to pay<br>
 
N235. Not lending at interest<br>
 
N236. Not borrowing at interest<br>
 
N237. Not participating in a loan at interest<br>
 
N238. Not oppressing an employee by delaying payment of his wages<br>
 
N239. Not taking a pledge from a debtor by force<br>
 
N240. Not keeping a needed pledge from its owner<br>
 
N241. Not taking a pledge from a widow<br>
 
N242. Not taking food utensils in pledge<br>
 
N243. Not abducting an Israelite<br>
 
N244. Not stealing money<br>
 
N245. Not committing robbery<br>
 
N246. Not fraudulently altering land boundaries<br>
 
N247. Not usurping our debts<br>
 
N248. Not repudiating our debts<br>
 
N249. Not to swear falsely in repudiating our debts<br>
 
N250. Not wronging one another in business<br>
 
N251. Not wronging one another by speech<br>
 
N252. Not wronging a proselyte by speech<br>
 
N253. Not wronging a proselyte in business<br>
 
N254. Not handing over a fugitive bondman<br>
 
N255. Not wronging a fugitive bondman<br>
 
N256. Not dealing harshly with orphans and widows<br>
 
N257. Not employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks<br>
 
N258. Not selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction<br>
 
N259. Not having a Hebrew bondman do unnecessary work<br>
 
N260. Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman<br>
 
N261. Not selling a Hebrew bondmaid<br>
 
N262. Not to afflict one's wife or espoused hebrew bondmaid by diminishing food, raiment or conjugal rights<br>
 
N263. Not selling a captive woman<br>
 
N264. Not enslaving a captive woman<br>
 
N265. Not planning to acquire someone else's property<br>
 
N266. Not coveting another's belongings<br>
 
N267. A hired laborer not eating growing crops<br>
 
N268. A hired laborer not putting of the harvest in his own vessel<br>
 
N269. Not ignoring lost property<br>
 
N270. Not leaving a person who is trapped under his burden<br>
 
N271. Not cheating in measurements and weights<br>
 
N272. Not keeping false weights and measures<br>
 
N273. Judge not to commit unrighteousness<br>
 
N274. Judge not accept gifts from litigants<br>
 
N275. Judge not to favor a litigant<br>
 
N276. Judge not avoid just judgement through fear of a wicked person<br>
 
N277. Judge not to decide in favor of poor man, out of pity<br>
 
N278. Judge not to pervert justice against person of evil repute<br>
 
N279. Judge not to pity one who has killed or caused loss of limb<br>
 
N280. Judge not perverting justice due to proselytes or orphans<br>
 
N281. Judge not to listen to one litigant in absence of the other<br>
 
N282. A court may not convict by a majority of one in a capital case<br>
 
N283. A judge may not rely on the opinion of a fellow judge, or may not argue for conviction after favoring acquittal<br>
 
N284. Not appointing an unlearned judge<br>
 
N285. Not bearing false witness<br>
 
N286. Judge not to receive a wicked man's testimony<br>
 
N287. Judge not to receive testimony from litigant's relatives<br>
 
N288. Not convicting on the testimony of a single witness<br>
 
N289. Not killing a human being<br>
 
N290. No capital punishment based on circumstantial evidence<br>
 
N291. A witness not acting as an advocate<br>
 
N292. Not killing a murderer without trial<br>
 
N293. Not sparing the life of a pursuer<br>
 
N294. Not punishing a person for a sin committed under duress<br>
 
N295. Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer<br>
 
N296. Not accepting a ransom from a wilful murderer<br>
 
N297. Not neglecting to save the life of an Israelite in danger<br>
 
N298. Not leaving obstacles on public or private domain<br>
 
N299. Not giving misleading advice<br>
 
N300. Not inflicting excessive corporal punishment<br>
 
N301. Not to bear tales<br>
 
N302. Not to hate another Jew<br>
 
N303. Not to put another to shame<br>
 
N304. Not to take vengeance on another<br>
 
N305. Not to bear a grudge<br>
 
N306. Not to take the entire bird's nest (mother and young)<br>
 
N307. Not to shave the scall<br>
 
N308. Not to cut or cauterize signs of leprosy<br>
 
N309. Not ploughing a valley where Eglah Arufah was done<br>
 
N310. Not permitting a sorcerer to live<br>
 
N311. Not taking bridegroom from home during first year<br>
 
N312. Not to differ from traditional authorities<br>
 
N313. Not to add to the Written or Oral Law<br>
 
N314. Not to detract from the Written or Oral Law<br>
 
N315. Not detracting from the Written or Oral law<br>
 
N316. Not to curse a ruler<br>
 
N317. Not to curse any Israelite<br>
 
N318. Not cursing parents<br>
 
N319. Not smiting parents<br>
 
N320. Not to work on Shabbos<br>
 
N321. Not to go beyond city limits on Shabbos<br>
 
N322. Not to punish on Shabbos<br>
 
N323. Not to work on the first day of Pesach<br>
 
N324. Not to work on the seventh day of Pesach<br>
 
N325. Not to work on Atzeres<br>
 
N326. Not to work on Rosh Hashana<br>
 
N327. Not to work on the first day of Sukkos<br>
 
N328. Not to work on Shemini Atzeres<br>
 
N329. Not to work on Yom Kippur<br>
 
N330. Not have relations with one's mother<br>
 
N331. Not have relations with one's father's wife<br>
 
N332. Not have relations with one's sister<br>
 
N333. Not have relations with daughter of father's wife if sister<br>
 
N334. Not have relations with one's son's daughter<br>
 
N335. Not have relations with one's daughter's daughter<br>
 
N336. Not have relations with one's daughter<br>
 
N337. Not have relations with a woman and her daughter<br>
 
N338. Not have relations with a woman and her son's daughter<br>
 
N339. Not have relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter<br>
 
N340. Not have relations with one's father's sister<br>
 
N341. Not have relations with one's mother's sister<br>
 
N342. Not have relations with wife of father's brother<br>
 
N343. Not have relations with one's son's wife<br>
 
N344. Not have relations with brother's wife<br>
 
N345. Not have relations with sister of wife (during her lifetime)<br>
 
N346. Not to have relations with a menstruant<br>
 
N347. Not to have relations with another man's wife<br>
 
N348. Men may not lie with beasts<br>
 
N349. Women may not lie with beasts<br>
 
N350. A man may not lie carnally with another man<br>
 
N351. A man may not lie carnally with his father<br>
 
N352. A man may not lie carnally with his father's brother<br>
 
N353. Not to be intimate with a kinswoman<br>
 
N354. A mamzer may not have relations with a Jewess<br>
 
N355. Not having relations with a woman without marriage<br>
 
N356. Not remarrying one's divorced wife after she has remarried<br>
 
N357. Not having relations with woman subject to Levirate marriage<br>
 
N358. Not divorcing woman he has raped and been compelled to marry<br>
 
N359. Not divorcing a woman after falsely bringing evil name on her<br>
 
N360. Man incapable of procreation not to marry a Jewess<br>
 
N361. Not to castrate a man or beast<br>
 
N362. Not appointing a non-Israelite born King<br>
 
N363. A king not owning many horses<br>
 
N364. A king not taking many wives<br>
 
N365. A king not amassing great personal wealth<br>
 
  
==See also==
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* [[613 mitzvot]]
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* [[Subdividing the Seven Laws]]
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== Rainbow of Colorful Critters Discovered in Suriname ==
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Revision as of 13:47, 24 August 2012

Sefer Hamitzvot ("Book of Commandments") by Maimonides, with a critical commentary by Nachmanides. Maimonides employs a set of fourteen rules (shorashim) which determine inclusion into the list. In this work, he supports his specification of each Mitzvah through quotations from the midrash halakha and the Gemara. Nachmanides makes a number of critical points and replaces some items of the list with others.

248 Positive Mitzvos

P1. Believing in G-d
P2. Unity of G-d
P3. Loving G-d
P4. Fearing G-d
P5. Worshiping G-d
P6. Cleaving to G-d
P7. Taking an oath by G-d's Name
P8. Walking in G-d's ways
P9. Sanctifying G-d's Name
P10. Reading the Shema twice daily
P11. Studying and teaching Torah
P12. Wearing Tephillin of the head
P13. Wearing Tephillin of the hand
P14. To make Tzitzis
P15. To affix a Mezuzah
P16. Hakhel during Sukkos
P17. A king should write a Torah
P18. Everyone should write a Torah
P19. Grace after meals
P20. Building a Sanctuary for G-d
P21. Revering the Beis Hamikdosh
P22. Guarding the Mikdosh
P23. Levitical services in the Mikdosh
P24. Ablutions of the Kohanim
P25. Kindling the lamps by the Kohanim
P26. Kohanim blessing Israel
P27. The Showbread
P28. Burning the Incense
P29. The perpetual fire on the Altar
P30. Removing the ashes from the Altar
P31. Removing tameh persons from the camp
P32. Honoring the Kohanim
P33. The Priestly garments
P34. Kohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders
P35. The oil of the Anointment
P36. Kohanim ministering in watches
P37. Kohanim defiling themselves for deceased relatives
P38. Kohein Gadol should only marry a virgin
P39. Daily Burnt Offerings
P40. Kohein Gadol's daily Meal Offering
P41. The Shabbos Additional Offering
P42. The New Moon Additional Offering
P43. The Pesach Additional Offering
P44. The Meal Offering of the Omer
P45. The Shavuos Additional Offering
P46. Bring Two Loaves on Shavuos
P47. The Rosh hashana Additional Offering
P48. The Yom Kippur Additional Offering
P49. The Service of Yom Kippur
P50. The Sukkos Offering
P51. The Shemini Atzeret Additional Offering
P52. The three annual pilgrimages
P53. Appearing before the L-rd during the Festivals
P54. Rejoicing on the Festivals
P55. Slaughtering the Pesach Offering
P56. Eating the Pesach Offering
P57. Slaughtering the Pesach Sheini Offering
P58. Eating the Pesach Sheini Offering
P59. Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary
P60. Minimum age of cattle to be offered
P61. Offering only unblemished sacrifices
P62. Bringing salt with every offering
P63. The Burnt-Offering
P64. The Sin-Offering
P65. The Guilt-Offering
P66. The Peace-Offering
P67. The Meal-Offering
P68. Offerings of a Court that has erred
P69. The Fixed Sin-Offering
P70. The Suspensive Guilt-Offering
P71. The Unconditional Guilt-Offering
P72. The Offering of a Higher or Lower Value
P73. Making confession
P74. Offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)
P75. Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)
P76. Offering of a woman after childbirth
P77. Offering brought by a leper
P78. Tithe of Cattle
P79. Sanctifying the First-born
P80. Redeeming the First-born
P81. Redeeming the firstling of a donkey
P82. Breaking the neck of the firstling of a donkey
P83. Bringing due offerings on the first festival
P84. All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary
P85. Bring all offerings due from outside Eretz Yisroel to Sanctuary
P86. Redeeming blemished offerings
P87. Holiness of substituted offerings
P88. Kohanim eat the residue of the Meal Offerings
P89. Kohanim eat the meat of the Consecrated Offerings
P90. To burn Consecrated Offerings that have become tameh
P91. To burn the remnant of the Consecrated Offerings
P92. The Nazir letting his hair grow
P93. Nazirite obligations on completion of vow
P94. All oral submissions to be fulfilled
P95. Revocation of vows
P96. Defilement through carcasses of animals
P97. Defilement through carcasses of eight creeping creatures
P98. Defilement of food and drink
P99. Tumah of a menstruant
P100. Tumah of a woman after childbirth
P101. Tumah of a leper
P102. Garments contaminated by leprosy
P103. A leprous house
P104. Tumah of a zav (man with a discharge)
P105. Tumah of semen
P106. Tumah of a zavah (woman with a discharge)
P107. Tumah of a corpse
P108. The law of the water of sprinkling
P109. Immersing in a mikveh
P110. Cleansing from Leprosy
P111. A leper must shave his head
P112. The leper must be made distinguishable
P113. Ashes of the Red Heifer
P114. Valuation of a person
P115. Valuation of beasts
P116. Valuation of houses
P117. Valuation of fields
P118. Restitution for Sacrilege
P119. The fruits of the fourth-year planting
P120. To leave the corners (Peah) for the poor
P121. To leave gleanings for the poor
P122. To leave the forgotten sheaf for the poor
P123. To leave defective grape clusters for the poor
P124. To leave grape gleanings for the poor
P125. To bring First-fruits to the Sanctuary
P126. To set aside the great Heave-offering
P127. To set aside the first tithe
P128. To set aside the second tithe
P129. The Levites' tithe for the Kohanim
P130. To set aside the poor-man's tithe in the third and sixth year
P131. The avowal of the tithe
P132. Recital on bringing the First-fruits
P133. To set aside the Challah for the Kohein
P134. Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year
P135. Resting the land on the Sabbatical year
P136. Sanctifying the Jubilee year
P137. Blowing the Shofar in the Jubilee year
P138. Reversion of the land in the Jubilee year
P139. Redemption of property in a walled city
P140. Counting the years till the Jubilee year
P141. Cancelling monetary claims in the Sabbatical year
P142. Exacting debts from idolaters
P143. The Kohein's due in the slaughter of every clean animal
P144. The first of the fleece to be given to the Kohein
P145. Devoted thing to G-d and the Kohein
P146. Slaughtering animals before eating them
P147. Covering the blood of slain birds and animals
P148. Releasing the mother before taking the nest
P149. Searching for the prescribed signs in cattle and animals
P150. Searching for the prescribed signs in birds
P151. Searching for the prescribed signs in grasshoppers
P152. Searching for the prescribed signs in fishes
P153. Determining the New Moon
P154. Resting on Shabbos
P155. Proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbos
P156. Removal of chometz on Pesach
P157. Recounting Exodus from ... \n

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