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 – לא יהיה לך אלהים אחרים על פני
• Love G-d – ואהבת את ה’ אלקיך בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך ובכל מאדך
• Fear G-d – את ה’ אלקיך תירא
• Circumcise Males –
• Wear Tzitzis and Recall the Mitzvos –
• Do not Forget G-d – השמר לך פן תשכח את ה’ אלקיך
• Sanctify G-d’s Great Name – ונקדשתי בתוך בני ישראל
• Do not Profane G-d’s Great Name – ולא תחללו את שם קדשי
• Do not Erase G-d’s Great Name – לא תעשון כן לה’ אלקיכם
• 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 – כי יעשו מכל חטאות האדם והתודו – Do Teshuva

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

• Pray as often as one needs something / daily
• Recite the שמע twice daily
• Recite Hallel in thanksgiving and praise

Laws Relating to Interpersonal Relationships

• Love your Fellow – ואהבת לרעך כמוך
• Do not hate your Fellow – לא תשנא את אחיך בלבבך
• Rebuke your Colleague – הוכח תוכיח את עמיתך
• Do not embarrass your Fellow – ולא תשא עליו חטא
• Do not exact revenge – לא תקם
• Do not be vindictive – ולא תטר
• Do not verbally harass – ולא תונו איש את עמיתו
• Do not harass a widow or orphan – כל אלמנה ויתום לא תענון
• Do not speak לשון הרע: malicious speech / gossip – לא תלך רכיל בעמך
• Do not hear לשון הרע: malicious speech / gossip – לא תשא שמע שוא
• Assist a porter in unloading –
• Load [properly] a beast of burden – הקם תקים עמו
  • 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 – לעלם בהם תעבדו
• Do not harass an escapee – עמך ישב בקרבך וגו’ [לא תוננו]
• Do not enslave an escapee – לא תסגיר עבד אל אדניו
  • The Righteous Convert
• Do not harass a Convert – וגר לא תונה
• Do not opress a Convert – ולא תלחצנו
• 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

• Produce Offspring –
• Do not engage in activities that can lead to forbidden sex –
• Do not sterilize a male –
• Do not be a strumpet or a gigolo –
• Do not prostitute your daughter –
  • Forbidden Sexual Acts
• Do not commit a homosexual act –
• Do not have sex with your father –
• Do not commit a homosexual act with your uncle –
• [males] Do not commit bestiality –
• [females] Do not commit bestiality –
  • Forbidden Sexual Partners
• your mother –
• your father’s wife –
• you son’s wife [daughter-in-law] –
• your daughter –
• your paternal granddaughter –
• your maternal granddaughter –
• a woman and her daughter –
• a grandmother and her paternal ganddaughter –
• a grandmother and her maternal ganddaughter –
• your sister –
• your half-sister –
• your aunt (uncle’s wife) –
• your aunt (father’s sister) –
• your aunt (mother’s sister) –
• your sister-in-law (brother’s wife) –
• Do not commit adultery –
  • Laws about Marriage
• Marry a Woman as proscribed –
• Do not withhold support of a spouse –
• Do not engage in marital intimacy with a menstruating woman –
• Do not marry sisters – ואשה אל אחותה לא תקח
• Do not intermarry –
• Do not marry an Amonite –
• Do not marry a Moabite –
• Do not over-alienate an Edomite –
• Do not over-alienate an Egyptian –
• Do not marry a Mamzer –
• Do not marry a testicular eunich –
• Do not marry a penile eunich –
  • Laws of the Sota
• Peform the Sota test-
• Do not pour oil on the Mincha of a Sota –
• Do not add frankincensee to the Mincha of a Sota –
  • Laws of Divorce and Prohibited Divorce
• Divorce a Woman as proscribed –
• Do not remarry your divorcée after she’s married another –
• A seduced maiden shall be compensated as proscribed –
• [If wanted by the victim] a rapist must marry his victim –
• A rapist may not divorce his victim –
• [If wanted by the victim] a slanderer must marry his victim –
• A slanderer may not divorce his victim –
  • Laws of marriage related to a Kohen
• A Kohen may not marry a prostitute –
• A Kohen may not marry a Chalala –
• A Kohen may not marry a divorcée –
• A Kohen Gadol may not marry a widow –
• A Kohen Gadol may not engage in sex with a widow –
• A Kohen Gadol may only marry a virgin –
  • Laws of the Yevama
• A Pending Yevama may not marry another –
• Alternatively perform Chalitza –
• Marry the Yevama –

Laws Ordering the Jewish Calendar

• Remember Shabbos and sanctify it
• Rest on Shabbos
• Honor and enjoy Shabbos
• Do not perform Work on Shabbos –
  • The thirty-nine (39) Categories of Work – וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קדש שבת שבתון להשם
• Do not travel on Shabbos
• The Laws of Eiruvin
  • Yom Tov
• Celebrate the holidays
• Conduct a pilgrimage on the holidays
• Do not appear for the festival without an offering
• Rejoice on the holidays
• Do not neglect the poor on the holidays – השמר לך פן תעזב את הלוי
  • Pesach
• Destroy Chometz on the day prior to Pesach – אך ביום הראשון תשביתו שאר מבתיכם
• Rest on the first day of Pesach
• Do not perform Work on the first day of Pesach
• Rest on the seventh day of Pesach
• Do not perform Work on the seventh day of Pesach
• Do not see Chometz on Pesach
• Do not find Chometz on Pesach
• Do not eat Chometz – לא תאכל עליו חמץ
• Do not eat a dish containing Chometz on Pesach
  • Shavuos
• 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
  • Sukkos
• Dwell in a Suka on Sukkos
• Take the four (4) species on the first day of Sukkos
• Rest on the first day of Sukkos
• Do not perform Work on the first day of Sukkos
  • Sh’mini Atzeres
• Rest on Sh’mini Atzeres
• Do not perform Work on Sh’mini Atzeres
  • Rosh Hashana
• Sound the Shofar on Rosh Hashana
• Rest on Rosh Hashana
• Do not perform Work on Rosh Hashana
  • Yom Kippur
• Rest on Yom Kippur
• Do not perform Work on Yom Kippur
• Fast on Yom Kippur
• Do not eat or drink on Yom Kippur
  • Other Calendric Mitzvos
• Pay a half-Shekel every year
• Gather the people for Hakhel
• Chanuka
• Purim
• Tisha b’Av and the other fast days

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
  • Testimony
• Testify – והוא עד או ראה או ידע
• Be Truthful – מדבר שקר תרחק
  • 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)

• a Kohen may not perform the service of a Levi and vice versa – אך אל כלי הקדש ואל המזבח לא יקרבו ולא ימתו גם הם גם אתם

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