the Mitzvah Index

Laws Created for the Creators Servants

• Believe in G-d – אנכי ה’ אלקיך
• Believe in the Unity of G-d – שמע ישראל ה’ אלקינו ה’ אחד
• Do not think there are other gods –
• Love G-d –
• Fear G-d –
• Circumcise Males –
• Wear Tzitzis and Recall the Mitzvos –
• Do not Forget G-d –
• Sanctify G-d’s Great Name –
• Do not Profane G-d’s Great Name –
• Do not Erase G-d’s Great Name –
• Do not Curse G-d –
• Do not Curse a Judge –
• Do not Curse a Leader or King –
• Do not Curse a Jew –
• Do not Curse Yourself –
• Do not Curse your Parents –
• Do not Strike your Parents –
• Do not be a Rebellious Son –
• Honor your Parents –
• Respect your Parents –
• Follow in his [G-d’s] Ways –
• Obey the True Prophets –
• Connect with the Sages –
• Do not Test G-d –
• Recognize Personal Divine Providence –
• Do Teshuvah –

Laws Ordained for Torah Study

• Teach Torah and Mitzvos – ולמדתם אתם את בניכם
• Honor the Elders – מפני שיבה תקום והדרת פני זקן
• Do not Separate from the Torah – השמר לך ושמר נפשך מאד פן תשכח את הדברים (אשר ראו עיניך) ופן יסורו מלבבך כל ימי חייך
• Write a Sefer Torah – ועתה כתבו לכם את השירה הזאת
• Bind Tefillin on the Arm – וקשרתם לאות על ידך
• Wear Tefillin on the Head – והיו לטטפת בין עיניך
• Affix Mezuzos – וכתבתם על מזוזות ביתך
• Laws of Safrus – Laws of Writing a Sefer Torah

Laws Arranged for Prayer

Laws Relating to Interpersonal Relationships

• Love your Fellow – ואהבת לרעך כמוך
• Do not hate your Fellow – לא תשנא את אחיך בלבבך
• Rebuke your Colleague –
• Do not embarrass your Fellow –
• Do not exact revenge –
• Do not be vindictive –
• Do not verbally harass –
• Do not harass a widow or orphan –
• Do not speak לשון הרע –
• Do not hear לשון הרע –
• Assist a porter in unloading –
• Load [properly] a beast of burden –
  • the prohibition against causing pain to a Living Creature
• Do not turn a blind eye to a struggling beast of burden –
  • The Cana’anite Servant
• Retain the Cana’anite Servant –
• Do not harass an escapee –
• Do not enslave an escapee –
  • The Righteous Convert
• Do not harass a Convert –
• Do not opress a Convert –
• Love the Convert –
• Do not cause the innocent to stumble –
  • The Nazir
• The Nazir shall grow out his hair wildly – גדל פרע שער ראשו
• a Nazir is prohibited from: drinking wine etc. –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: eating grapes –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: eating raisins –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: eating grapeseeds –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: eating grape peels –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: entering a טמא structure –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: contracting טומאה –
• a Nazir is prohibited from: cutting their hair –
• Upon conclusion of the Nazirite period, a Nazir shall … –

Laws Connected to Male Female Relationships

• Marry a Woman as proscribed
• Do not marry sisters – ואשה אל אחותה לא תקח

Laws Ordering the Jewish Calendar

• Do not perform Work on Shabbos –
  • The thirty-nine (39) Categories of Work – וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קדש שבת שבתון להשם
• Destroy Chometz on the day prior to Pesach – אך ביום הראשון תשביתו שאר מבתיכם
• Do not eat Chometz – לא תאכל עליו חמץ
• Rest on the Holiday of Shavuos – וקראתם בעצם היום הזה מקרא קדש (שבועות)
• Do not perform Work on Shavuos – כל מלאכת עבודה לא תעשו (שבועות)
• Count the days from the Omer offering – וספרתם לכם
• Do not neglect the poor on the holiday – השמר לך פן תעזב את הלוי

Laws Proceeding from the Pesach Night and the Hagada

• Eat Matza on the first night of Pesach

Laws of Kosher and Agriculture / the Land and its Treatment

• Do not cook or eat meat and milk together – לא תבשל גדי בחלב אמו
• Do not benefit from meat and milk together – לא תבשל גדי בחלב אמו (הנאה)
• Do not eat a non-Kosher animal – אך את זה לא תאכלו
• Do not eat a non-slaughtered animal – לא תאכלו כל נבלה
• Do not eat an animal which was to be stoned to death – ולא יאכל את בשרו
• Gift to the Kohen [or Koheness] the foreleg, the jaw (and cheek / tongue) and the maw of slaughtered animals – ונתן לכהן הזרע והלחיים והקבה
• Redeem the firstborn son – וכל בכור אדם בבניך תפדה
• Do not modify the cities assigned to the tribe of Levi – ושדה מגרש עריהם לא ימכר

Laws for Washing Hands and Bentching (Grace after meals)

Laws Regulating Commerce and Damages

• Redeem a Jewish Maidservant – והפדה

Laws Administered to and by the Courts and its Judges

• Do not appoint non-expert Judges – לא תכירו פנים במשפט
  • Oaths and Promises
• Fulfill your Promises – מוצא שפתיך תשמר ועשית

Laws Combating Idolatry, Magic and Assimilation

• Do not form extruding images – לא תעשון אתי אלהי כסף
• Do not establish permanent residency (citizenship) for non-Jews in the land of Israel – ולא תחנם

Laws Rules and Definitions of Tum’ah and Tahara

• the waters of the Mikva shall be a source of Tahara –
  • Rabbinic Laws of Washing Hands – Laws of Washing Hands
• Perform the Red Cow Procedure as Proscribed –
• the water mixed with the Red Cow Ashes shall be a source of Tahara for those exposed to Tum’ah by means of exposure to death, and the one preparing the Ashes shall be rendered Tamay thereby –
  • Sources of Tum’ah
    • Other types of Tum’ah –
• a dead body shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• a Zav shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• a Nida shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• a Zava shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• a woman who has given birth shall be a source of Tum’ah –
  • Laws of the Tum’ah associated with the state of Nida
• a dead animal carcass shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• a Sheretz shall be a source of Tum’ah –
• Food [when properly prepared] and liquids shall contract Tum’ah –
• Semen shall be a source of Tum’ah –
  • the prohibition against male masturbation – the Prohibition against male masturbation
• Expel those who have contracted Tum’ah from the holy environs –
• those who have contracted Tum’ah may not enter the holy environs they are barred from –
  • The Metzora
• Perform the proscribed process to determine the status of a Metzora –
• Do not cut the hair of a Nessek –
• Do not uproot the signs of Tzara’as –
• the Metzora shall behave as proscirbed –
• the Metzora shall perform the Tahara procedure as proscribed when granted cessation from Tzara’as –
• the Metzora shall shave during the Tahara procedure as proscribed when granted cessation from Tzara’as –
• Laws of Tzara’as afflicting clothing –
• Laws of Tzara’as afflicting houses –

Laws Serving the Base Hamikdash those whose serve there (the Kohanim)

Laws Governing the Monarchy and Warfare

• Destroy the nation of Amalek – תמחה את זכר עמלק
• Recall what Amalek did – זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק
• Do not forget what Amalek did – לא תשכח
• a King shall write an additional Sefer Torah – והיה כשבתו על כסא ממלכתו וכתב לו