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Thursday Thoughts: Structure, Flexibility, and Torah

(I wrote this d’var for tomorrow’s Shabbat evening services. Turns out I won’t be leading services tomorrow after all - so I’m sharing it here instead!)

I love being a Jew. I see it as an active thing – BEING a Jew. Living a Jewish life, making Jewish choices, taking part in our rich, meaningful traditions and fulfilling the mitzvot of the Torah.

However, if I said that I was living a Jewish life in every possible way – making all Jewish choices, taking part in all our traditions, and fulfilling all mitzvot – that would be a lie.

Those of you who come to Shabbat services regularly on Friday nights know that you will nearly always find me here, now. However, if you also come on Saturday morning, then you know that you will almost never find me there, then. I bake challah, but I do not light Shabbat candles. I take time off from my day job on Jewish holidays when I can, but I’m not always able to. I eat kosher foods, but I do not have kosher dishes, since I share my kitchen with three people who do not keep kosher.

I do what I can. Sometimes, I feel like I’m not doing enough.

It’s easy to imagine that G-d might also think that I’m not doing enough. After all, there are 613 mitzvot in the Torah. If your boss gave you an employee handbook with 613 rules for employee conduct, then you would assume that this is a strict boss with a very structured work environment, someone who wants you to obey their instructions without fail or flexibility.

But this week’s parsha makes it clear that “obey without fail or flexibility” is not an entirely accurate description of G-d’s expectations for Jewish people.

This week we read Parshat Vayikra – the beginning of the book of Leviticus. Incidentally, Leviticus has 243 of the 613 mitzvot – more than any other book in the Torah.

(If you’re curious, second place goes to Deuteronomy at 203 mitzvot, Exodus comes in third at 109, Numbers is fourth at 56, and Genesis has only two.)

So, Leviticus is the Big Book of Rules, right? In Vayikra, the start of this book, there are a lot of rules about making offerings at the temple. These are sin offerings. A person would admit wrongdoing and atone for their sin by making the offering. In Leviticus chapter 5 verse 6, the Torah explains, “he shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he had committed, a female from the flock, either a sheep or a goat, for a sin offering.”

But it doesn’t end there. The next verse, verse 7, reads “But if he cannot afford a sheep, he shall bring as his guilt offering for that [sin] that he had committed, two turtle doves or two young doves before the Lord.”

And then if we jump ahead a couple verses, to verse 11, the Torah reads, “But if he cannot afford two turtle doves or two young doves, then he shall bring as his sacrifice for his sin one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering.”

(An ephah is a unit of measurement here, and according to Google, it’s about the size of a bushel. So you would bring a tenth of a bushel of flour. I’m not sure exactly how big that is, but it doesn’t sound like much. Certainly it sounds less than a whole sheep.)

So – the commandment here, the mitzvah, is to make a sin offering. And through the Torah, G-d gives specific instructions about what to bring and what to do with it – you bring a sheep, and this is how you kill it. It’s a structure for atonement. But the Torah also provides exceptions or alternate options for this sin offering. If you can’t bring a sheep, bring two doves, and if you can’t bring two doves, bring some flour. The Torah provides structure, and it also provides different structures depending on your individual means.

In doing so, the Torah takes a behavior that could be very limited – something that only rich people could do, the people who could afford to give up an animal because they had plenty more to eat or breed – and turns it into something that anyone could do, within their means, in the way that works best for them. It’s flexible. It’s also encouraging in a way – having these different options for how to participate in the mitzvah makes the whole idea of making sin offerings feel more accessible for anyone.

And this ties in well with how I see and experience Judaism. It’s accessible for all of us. Yes, there’s structure. Judaism includes instructions for every part of our lives. And like I said before, it’s an active thing. I don’t think that you can really BE a Jew if you aren’t doing ANYTHING that’s Jewish.

But you don’t need to do EVERYTHING.

You don’t need to obey EVERY commandment in exactly the same way as everyone else in order to live a Jewish life, make Jewish choices, and participate in the Jewish community. G-d empowers all of us to show up when we can, and how we can, in the way that works best for us, to create a meaningful life as Jews. For me, tonight, that means standing up here in front of you, delivering this d’var. Last week, it meant sitting in the back row with my friends, and next week, it will mean traveling home to spend Passover with my family. And every week, every day, we get to make those Jewish choices, to create our Jewish life. Shabbat shalom.

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This is the part two of God's law

The 613 MITZVOT is the numbers of God's law from the old testament.the 613 MITZVOT refers to the 613 Jewish commandments (MITZVOT in Hebrew) for the part one of this post check the post below this post.

335. A non-priest must not serve.

(Numbers 18:4)

336. Blemished animals are unacceptable as offerings.

(Leviticus 22:21)

337. Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar.

(Leviticus 22:20)

338. An animal with a discharge must not be slaughtered.

(Leviticus 22:22)

339. Not to sprinkle the blood of a disabled animal.

(Leviticus 22:24)

340. Not to burn the fat of a defective animal.

(Leviticus 22:22)

341. Not to offer an animal with a temporary blemish.

(Deuteronomy 17:1)

342. Not to accept defective offerings even from foreigners.

(Leviticus 22:25)

343. Not to inflict wounds or commit damage upon dedicated animals.

(Leviticus 22:21)

344. To redeem disqualified dedicated animals.

(Deuteronomy 12:15)

345. To offer animals that are at least eight days old.

(Leviticus 22:27)

346. Not to offer animals purchased with the fees of a harlot or an animal exchanged for a dog.

(Deuteronomy 23:19)

347. Not to burn yeast or honey on the altar.

(Leviticus 2:11)

348. To salt all sacrifices.

(Leviticus 2:13)

349. Not to omit the salt from grain offerings.

(Leviticus 2:13)

350. To follow the burnt offering procedures as written in the Torah.

(Leviticus 1:3)

351. Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering.

(Deuteronomy 12:17)

352. To carry out the procedure for a sin offering.

(Leviticus 6:18)

353. Not to eat the meat of a sin offering.

(Leviticus 6:23)

354. The priest shall not cut off the head of a bird (sin) offering.

(Leviticus 5:8)

355. To follow the procedures of the guilt offering.

(Leviticus 7:1)

356. The priests must eat the sacrificed meat in the temple.

(Exodus 29:33)

357. Priests must not eat the meat outside the temple.

(Deuteronomy 12:17)

358. A non-priest must not eat the sacrificial meat.

(Exodus 29:33)

359. To follow the procedure of the peace offering.

(Leviticus 7:11)

360. Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood.

(Deuteronomy 12:17)

361. To bring meal offerings in the prescribed manner.

(Leviticus 2:1)

362. Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers.

(Leviticus 5:11)

363. Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers.

(Leviticus 5:11)

364. Not to eat the cereal offering of the high priest.

(Leviticus 6:16)

365. Not to bake meal offerings with leaven.

(Leviticus 6:10)

366. The priests must eat the remains of the meal offerings.

(Leviticus 6:9)

367. To bring all freewill offerings to the temple and rejoice.

(Deuteronomy 12:5-6)

368. Not to withhold payment which fulfills a vow to God.

(Deuteronomy 23:22)

369. To offer all sacrifices in the temple.

(Deuteronomy 12:11)

370. To bring all votive offerings to the temple.

(Deuteronomy 12:26)

371. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple.

(Leviticus 17:4)

372. Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple.

(Deuteronomy 12:13)

373. To offer two lambs every day.

(Numbers 28:3)

374. To light a fire on the altar every day.

(Leviticus 6:5)

375. Not to extinguish this fire.

(Leviticus 6:5)

376. To remove the ashes from the altar every day.

(Leviticus 6:3)

377. To burn incense every day.

(Exodus 30:7)

378. To keep the light burning every day (in the candelabra).

(Exodus 27:21)

379. The High Priest must bring a meal offering every day.

(Leviticus 6:13)

380. To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on the Sabbath.

(Numbers 28:9)

381. To make and present the showbread.

(Exodus 25:30)

382. To bring additional offerings of the new moon.

(Numbers 28:11)

383. To bring additional offerings on Passover.

(Numbers 28:19)

384. To bring a wave offering from the meal of the new wheat.

(Leviticus 23:10)

385. To count the seven weeks from the new wheat offering to Pentecost (Shavuot).

(Leviticus 23:15)

386. To bring an additional offering on Shavuot (Pentecost).

(Numbers 28:26)

387. To offer two loaves, which must accompany the above sacrifices.

(Leviticus 23:18)

388. To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana, the New Year.

(Numbers 29:2)

389. To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

(Numbers 29:8)

390. To bring additional offerings on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths.

(Numbers 29:13)

391. To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret, the eighth day of the Feast of Booths.

(Numbers 29:35)

392. Not to eat any unfit sacrifices.

(Deuteronomy 14:3)

393. Not to eat sacrifices offered with improper intentions.

(Leviticus 7:18)

394. To eat the Thanksgiving sacrifice on the day it was sacrificed.

(Leviticus 22:30)

395. Not to eat leftover sacrifices.

(Leviticus 19:8)

396. Not to eat from sacrifices that have become impure.

(Leviticus 7:19)

397. An unclean person cannot eat from sacrifices.

(Leviticus 7:20)

398. Sacrificial remains must be burned on the third day.

(Leviticus 7:17)

399. Impure sacrifices must be burnt.

(Leviticus 7:19)

400. To follow the priestly rituals of Yom Kippur.

(Leviticus 16:3)

401. One who uses sacred property for personal use incurs a special penalty and sacrifice.

(Leviticus 5:16)

402. Not to work consecrated animals.

(Deuteronomy 15:19)

403. Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals.

(Deuteronomy 15:19)

404. To slaughter the Paschal sacrifice at the specified time.

(Exodus 12:6)

405. Not to slaughter the Paschal sacrifice while possessing leaven.

(Exodus 23:18)

406. Not to leave the fat overnight.

(Exodus 23:18)

407. To slaughter the second Paschal Lamb.

(Numbers 9:11)

408. The Paschal Lamb is to be eaten with matzoh on the night it was slaughtered.

(Exodus 12:8)

409. To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the fifteenth of Iyar.

(Numbers 9:11)

410. To roast the Paschal Lamb and not eat it raw or boiled.

(Exodus 12:9)

411. No part of the Paschal Lamb may be removed from the house.

(Exodus 12:46)

412. An apostate must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.

(Exodus 12:43)

413. A hired servant or traveler must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.

(Exodus 12:45)

414. An uncircumcised male must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.

(Exodus 12:48)

415. No bone of the Paschal Lamb shall be broken.

(Exodus 12:46)

416. Not to break any bones from the second Paschal offering.

(Numbers 9:12)

417. Not to leave any of the Lamb over until morning.

(Exodus 12:10)

418. Not to leave the second Paschal meat until morning.

(Numbers 9:12)

419. Eat the Passover meat entirely on the night it is offered.

(Deuteronomy 16:4)

420. To be seen at the temple three times a year—Passover, Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks; and Sukkot, the Festival of Booths.

(Deuteronomy 16:16)

421. To celebrate and bring a peace offering in pilgrimage on these three festivals.

(Exodus 23:14)

422. To rejoice on these three festivals.

(Deuteronomy 16:14)

423. Not to appear at the temple for annual festivals without offerings.

(Deuteronomy 16:16)

424. Not to refrain from rejoicing with and giving gifts to the Levites.

(Deuteronomy 12:19)

425. Every seven years, on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, to assemble all the people and read the law.

(Deuteronomy 31:12)

426. To consecrate to God the firstborn of man and beast.

(Exodus 13:12)

427. The priests must not eat of the unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem.

(Deuteronomy 12:17)

428. The firstborn of clean animals cannot be redeemed.

(Numbers 18:17)

429. Separate the tithe from the animals.

(Leviticus 27:32)

430. Do not exchange a good animal for a bad for the tithe.

(Leviticus 27:33)

431. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression.

(Leviticus 4:27)

432. An unintentional sin requires a sin offering when discovered.

(Leviticus 5:17-18)

433. A guilt offering is required when one deals deceitfully.

(Leviticus 5:25)

434. For certain sins a wealthy person will offer an animal and the poor will offer doves, pigeons, or meal as prescribed.

(Leviticus 5:7-11)

435. The court must bring an offering when it rules in error or when the community sins.

(Leviticus 4:13)

436. A woman with an irregular discharge must bring an offering after she goes to the ritual bath.

(Leviticus 15:28-29)

437. A woman who gives birth must bring an offering after she immerses in the ritual bath.

(Leviticus 12:6)

438. A man who is cured of a chronic discharge must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath.

(Leviticus 15:13-14)

439. One who is cured of a skin disease must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath.

(Leviticus 14:10)

440. Not to substitute another beast for one scheduled for sacrifice.

(Leviticus 27:10)

441. The new animal, along with the substituted one, retains consecration.

(Leviticus 27:10)

442. Not to change consecrated animals (from one type of offering to another).

(Leviticus 27:26)

443. Everyone under a roof with a corpse is unclean.

(Numbers 19:14)

444. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer.

(Numbers 19:9)

445. A clean person sprinkles water on those who are unclean.

(Numbers 19:21)

446. The priest's role is governed by the law when dealing with matters of skin disease.

(Leviticus 13:12)

447. The afflicted must not remove the signs of impurity.

(Deuteronomy 24:8)

448. The afflicted must not shave signs of impurity in his hair.

(Leviticus 13:33)

449. A skin-diseased person will tear his clothes, grow his hair long, and cry out, "unclean, unclean."

(Leviticus 13:45)

450. Carry out the procedure for purifying the person with skin disease.

(Leviticus 14:2)

451. The diseased person must shave off all his hair prior to purification.

(Leviticus 14:9)

452. To discover when a leprous infection is on a garment.

(Leviticus 13:47)

453. To discover when a house is infected by a skin disease.

(Leviticus 14:35)

454. To observe the laws of menstrual impurity.

(Leviticus 15:19)

455. To observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth.

(Leviticus 12:2)

456. To observe the laws of impurity caused by an irregular discharge.

(Leviticus 15:25)

457. To observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's chronic discharge.

(Leviticus 15:3)

458. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with a dead animal.

(Leviticus 11:39)

459. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with the eight (named) swarming creatures.

(Leviticus 11:29)

460. Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission.

(Leviticus 15:16)

461. Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods.

(Leviticus 11:34)

462. Every impure person must immerse himself in a ritual bath to become pure.

(Leviticus 15:16)

463. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox.

(Exodus 21:28)

464. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating in another's field.

(Exodus 22:4)

465. The court must judge the damages incurred by an open pit.

(Exodus 21:33)

466. The court must judge the damages incurred by fire.

(Exodus 22:5)

467. Not to steal money stealthily.

(Leviticus 19:11)

468. The court must implement punitive measures against the thief.

(Exodus 21:37)

469. Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate.

(Leviticus 19:36)

470. Not to commit injustice with scales and weights.

(Leviticus 19:35)

471. Not to possess inaccurate weights and scales even if they are not for use.

(Deuteronomy 25:13)

472. Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone's property.

(Deuteronomy 19:14)

473. Not to kidnap.

(Exodus 20:13)

474. Not to rob openly.

(Leviticus 19:13)

475. Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt.

(Leviticus 19:13)

476. Not to covet and scheme to acquire another's possession.

(Exodus 20:14)

477. Not to desire another's possession.

(Deuteronomy 5:18)

478. Return the robbed object or its value.

(Leviticus 5:23)

479. Not to ignore a lost object.

(Deuteronomy 22:3)

480. Return the lost object.

(Deuteronomy 22:1)

481. The court must implement laws against one who assaults another or damages another's property.

(Exodus 21:18)

482. Not to murder.

(Exodus 20:13)

483. Not to accept money to save a convicted murderer.

(Numbers 35:31)

484. The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge.

(Numbers 35:25)

485. Not to accept monetary restitution instead of sending the accidental murderer to, or releasing him from, a city of refuge.

(Numbers 35:32)

486. Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial.

(Numbers 35:12)

487. To save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer.

(Deuteronomy 25:12)

488. Not to pity the pursuer.

(Numbers 35:12)

489. Not to stand idly by if someone's life is in danger.

(Leviticus 19:16)

490. Designate refuge cities and prepare routes of access.

(Deuteronomy 19:3)

491. When a murdered person is found in open country and the murder is unsolved, break the neck of a calf by the river valley.

(Deuteronomy 21:4)

492. Not to work that river valley or plant there.

(Deuteronomy 21:4)

493. Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property.

(Deuteronomy 22:8)

494. Make a guardrail around flat roofs.

(Deuteronomy 22:8)

495. Not to put a stumbling block before the blind.

(Leviticus 19:14)

496. Help another remove the load from a beast that can no longer carry it.

(Exodus 23:5)

497. Help others load their beasts.

(Deuteronomy 22:4)

498. Not to leave fallen beasts distraught with their burdens but help to load or unload.

(Deuteronomy 22:4)

499. Buy and sell according to Torah law.

(Leviticus 25:14)

500. Not to overcharge or underpay for an article.

(Leviticus 25:14)

501. Not to insult or harm anybody with words.

(Leviticus 25:17)

502. Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily.

(Exodus 22:20)

503. Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words.

(Exodus 22:20)

504. A Hebrew slave shall be released after six years.

(Exodus 21:2)

505. Not to sell him as a slave is sold.

(Leviticus 25:42)

506. Not to work the slave oppressively.

(Leviticus 25:43)

507. Not to allow a foreigner to work the slave oppressively.

(Leviticus 25:53)

508. Not to have the kinsman slave do menial slave labor.

(Leviticus 25:39)

509. Give the slave gifts when he goes free.

(Deuteronomy 15:14)

510. Not to send the freed slave away empty-handed.

(Deuteronomy 15:13)

511. Redeem Jewish maidservants.

(Exodus 21:8)

512. Betroth the Jewish maidservant.

(Exodus 21:8)

513. The master cannot resell a female servant.

(Exodus 21:8)

514. Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs.

(Leviticus 25:46)

515. Not to extradite a slave who fled to (Biblical) Israel.

(Deuteronomy 23:16)

516. Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge.

(Deuteronomy 23:17)

517. The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard.

(Exodus 22:9)

518. Pay wages on the day they were earned.

(Deuteronomy 24:15)

519. Do not delay payment of wages past the agreed time.

(Leviticus 19:13)

520. The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works.

(Deuteronomy 23:25)

521. The worker must not eat while on hired time.

(Deuteronomy 23:26)

522. The worker must not take more than he can eat.

(Deuteronomy 23:25)

523. Not to muzzle an ox while plowing.

(Deuteronomy 25:4)

524. The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower.

(Exodus 22:13)

525. The courts must carry out the laws of the unpaid guard.

(Exodus 22:6)

526. Lend without interest to the poor.

(Exodus 22:24)

527. Not to press the poor for repayment.

(Exodus 22:24)

528. Press the idolater for payment.

(Deuteronomy 15:3)

529. The creditor must not forcibly take collateral.

(Deuteronomy 24:10)

530. Return the collateral to the debtor when it is needed.

(Deuteronomy 24:13)

531. Not to delay returning the collateral when it is needed.

(Deuteronomy 24:12)

532. Not to demand collateral from a widow.

(Deuteronomy 24:17)

533. Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food.

(Deuteronomy 24:6)

534. Not to lend with interest within the community.

(Leviticus 25:37)

535. Not to borrow with interest.

(Deuteronomy 23:20)

536. Not to play any role in an interest loan.

(Exodus 22:24)

537. Lend to, and borrow from, idolaters at interest.

(Deuteronomy 23:21)

538. The court must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter or denier.

(Exodus 22:8)

539. Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance.

(Numbers 27:8)

540. Appoint judges.

(Deuteronomy 16:18)

541. Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure.

(Deuteronomy 1:17)

542. Decide by majority in case of disagreement.

(Exodus 23:2)

543. The court must not execute through a majority of one, but at least a majority of two is required.

(Exodus 23:2)

544. A judge who presents a case for acquittal must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases.

(Exodus 23:2)

545. The court must carry out the death penalty of stoning.

(Deuteronomy 22:24)

546. The court must carry out the death penalty of burning.

(Leviticus 20:14)

547. The court must carry out the death penalty of the sword.

(Exodus 21:20)

548. The court must carry out the death penalty of strangulation.

(Leviticus 20:10)

549. The court must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry.

(Deuteronomy 21:22)

550. Bury the executed on the day they were killed.

(Deuteronomy 21:23)

551. Not to delay the burial overnight.

(Deuteronomy 21:23)

552. The court must not let the sorcerer live.

(Exodus 22:17)

553. The court must flog the wrongdoer.

(Deuteronomy 25:2)

554. The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes.

(Deuteronomy 25:3)

555. The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence.

(Exodus 23:7)

556. The court must not punish anybody who was forced to commit a crime.

(Deuteronomy 22:26)

557. The judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial.

(Deuteronomy 19:13)

558. The judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial.

(Leviticus 19:15)

559. The judge must not respect the great man at the trial.

(Leviticus 19:15)

560. The judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor.

(Exodus 23:6)

561. The judge must not pervert justice.

(Leviticus 19:15)

562. The judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or an orphan.

(Deuteronomy 24:17)

563. Judge righteously.

(Leviticus 19:15)

564. The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment.

(Deuteronomy 1:17)

565. Judges must not accept bribes.

(Exodus 23:8)

566. Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present.

(Exodus 23:1)

567. Not to curse judges.

(Exodus 22:27)

568. Not to curse the head of state.

(Exodus 22:27)

569. Not to curse a deaf person.

(Leviticus 19:14)

570. Anyone who knows evidence must testify at a trial.

(Leviticus 5:1)

571. Carefully interrogate the witness.

(Deuteronomy 13:15)

572. A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes.

(Numbers 35:30)

573. Not to accept testimony from a lone witness.

(Deuteronomy 19:15)

574. Transgressors must not testify.

(Exodus 23:1)

575. The litigant's relatives cannot testify.

(Deuteronomy 24:16)

576. Not to testify falsely.

(Exodus 20:13)

577. Do to the false witness what he tried to do to the defendant.

(Deuteronomy 19:19)

578. Act according to the rulings of the high court.

(Deuteronomy 17:11)

579. Not to deviate from a legal discussion.

(Deuteronomy 17:11)

580. Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations.

(Deuteronomy 13:1)

581. Not to diminish any commandments from the Torah, in whole or in part.

(Deuteronomy 13:1)

582. Not to curse your father and mother.

(Exodus 21:17)

583. Not to strike your father and mother.

(Exodus 21:15)

584. Respect your father and mother.

(Exodus 20:12)

585. Fear your father and mother.

(Leviticus 19:3)

586. Not to behave like the rebellious son as described in the Torah.

(Deuteronomy 21:20)

587. Mourn for relatives—even priests.

(Leviticus 10:19)

588. The High Priest must not defile himself for any relatives.

(Leviticus 21:11)

589. The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse.

(Leviticus 21:11)

590. A priest must not defile himself for anyone other than his relatives.

(Leviticus 21:1)

591. Appoint a king from Israel.

(Deuteronomy 17:15)

592. Not to appoint a convert.

(Deuteronomy 17:15)

593. The king must not have too many wives.

(Deuteronomy 17:17)

594. The king must not have too many horses.

(Deuteronomy 17:16)

595. The king must not have too much silver and gold.

(Deuteronomy 17:17)

596. Destroy the seven Canaanite nations.

(Deuteronomy 20:17)

597. Not to let any of them remain alive.

(Deuteronomy 20:16)

598. Blot out the memory of Amalek.

(Deuteronomy 25:19)

599. Remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people.

(Deuteronomy 25:17)

600. Not to forget their atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert.

(Deuteronomy 25:19)

601. Not to dwell permanently in Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 17:16)

602. Offer peace terms to the residents of a city under siege and treat them according to the Torah if they accept surrender terms.

(Deuteronomy 20:10)

603. Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them.

(Deuteronomy 23:7)

604. Not to destroy fruit trees even during a siege.

(Deuteronomy 20:19)

605. Prepare latrines outside the camps.

(Deuteronomy 23:13)

606. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with.

(Deuteronomy 23:14)

607. Appoint a priest to speak to the soldiers during war.

(Deuteronomy 20:2)

608. A newly married man who has built a home or planted a vineyard is exempt from the military to rejoice with his wife.

(Deuteronomy 24:5)

609. Not to conscript or involve the newly married man in military or communal service.

(Deuteronomy 24:5)

610. Not to panic and retreat during battle.

(Deuteronomy 20:3)

611. Carry out the laws of captive women.

(Deuteronomy 21:11)

612. Not to sell her into slavery.

(Deuteronomy 21:14)

613. Not to retain her for servitude after having relations with her.

(Deuteronomy 21:14)

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