613 Laws ( Rulings) 300-613

[James and Terry Hamilton]

301. To build a Sanctuary (Holy Temple)--Exodus 25:8

302. Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal--Exodus 20:22

303. Not to climb steps to the altar--Exodus 20:23

304. To show reverence for the Temple--Leviticus 19:30

305. To guard the Temple area--Numbers 18:3

306. Not to leave the Temple unguarded--Numbers 18:5

307. To prepare the anointing oil--Exodus 30:31

308. Not to reproduce the anointing oil (for personal use)--Exodus 30:32

309. Not to anoint with anointing oil (a non-Kohen or non-king)--Exodus 30:32

310. Not to reproduce the incense formula (for personal use)--Exodus 30:37

311. Not to burn anything on the Golden Altar besides incense--Exodus 30:9

312. The Levites must transport the ark on their shoulders--Numbers 7:9

313. Not to remove the staves from the ark--Exodus 25:15

314. The Levites must work in the Temple--Numbers 18:23

315. No Levite must do another's work of either a Kohen or a Levite--Numbers 18:3

316. To dedicate the Kohen for service--Leviticus 21:8

317. The Kohen work shifts must be equal during holidays--Deuteronomy 18:6-8

318. The Kohanim must wear their priestly garments during service--Exodus 28:2

319. Not to tear the priestly garments--Exodus 28:32

320. The High Priest's breastplate must not be loosened from the Efod (priestly apron)--Exodus 28:28

321. A Kohen must not enter the Temple intoxicated--Leviticus 10:9

322. A Kohen must not enter the Temple with long hair--Leviticus 10:6

323. A Kohen must not enter the Temple with torn clothes--Leviticus 10:6

324. A Kohen must not enter the sanctuary of the Temple indiscriminately--Leviticus 16:2

325. A Kohen must not leave the Temple during service--Leviticus 10:7

326. To send the impure from the Temple--Numbers 5:2

327. Impure people must not enter the Temple--Numbers 5:3

328. [Certain] impure people must not enter [even] the Temple Mount area--Deuteronomy 23:11

329. Impure Kohanim must not do service in the temple--Leviticus 22:2

330. An impure Kohen, following immersion, must wait until after sundown before returning to service--Leviticus 21:6

331. A Kohen must wash his hands and feet before service--Exodus 30:19

332. A Kohen with a physical blemish must not enter the sanctuary or approach the altar--Leviticus 21:23

333. A Kohen with a physical blemish must not serve--Leviticus 21:17

334. A Kohen with a temporary blemish must not serve--Leviticus 21:18

335. One who is not a Kohen must not serve--Numbers 18:4

336. To offer only unblemished animals--Leviticus 22:21

337. Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar--Leviticus 22:20

338. Not to slaughter it--Leviticus 22:22

339. Not to sprinkle its blood--Leviticus 22:24

340. Not to burn its fat--Leviticus 22:22

341. Not to offer a temporarily blemished animal--Deuteronomy 17:1

342. Not to sacrifice blemished animals even if offered by non-Jews--Leviticus 22:25

343. Not to inflict wounds upon dedicated animals--Leviticus 22:21

344. To redeem dedicated animals which have become disqualified--Deuteronomy 12:15

345. To offer only animals which are at least eight days old--Leviticus 22:27

346. Not to offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot or the animal exchanged for a dog--Deuteronomy 23:19

347. Not to burn honey or yeast on the altar--Leviticus 2:11

348. To salt all sacrifices--Leviticus 2:13

349. Not to omit the salt from sacrifices--Leviticus 2:13

350. Carry out the procedure of the burnt offering as prescribed in the Torah--Leviticus 1:3

351. Not to eat its meat--Deuteronomy 12:17

352. Carry out the procedure of the sin offering--Leviticus 6:18

353. Not to eat the meat of the inner sin offering--Leviticus 6:23

354. Not to decapitate a fowl brought as a sin offering--Leviticus 5:8

355. Carry out the procedure of the guilt offering--Leviticus 7:1

356. The Kohanim must eat the sacrificial meat in the Temple--Exodus 29:33

357. The Kohanim must not eat the meat outside the Temple courtyard--Deuteronomy 12:17

358. A non-Kohen must not eat [certain] sacrificial meats--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 as prescribed in the Torah--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. The meal offering of a Priest should not be eaten--Leviticus 6:16

365. Not to bake a meal offering as leavened bread--Leviticus 6:10

366. The Kohanim must eat the remains of the meal offerings--Leviticus 6:9

367. To bring all avowed and freewill offerings to the Temple on the first subsequent festival--Deuteronomy 12:5-6

368. Not to withhold payment incurred by any vow--Deuteronomy 23:22

369. To offer all sacrifices in the Temple--Deuteronomy 12:11

370. To bring all sacrifices from outside Israel to the Temple--Deuteronomy 12:26

371. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard--Leviticus 17:4

372. Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard--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 light the Menorah every day--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 Shabbat--Numbers 28:9

381. To make the show bread--Exodus 25:30

382. To bring additional offerings on the New Month (Rosh Chodesh)--Numbers 28:11

383. To bring additional offerings on Passover--Numbers 28:19

384. To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat (on the 2nd day of Passover)--Leviticus 23:10

385. Each man must count the Omer -- seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought--Leviticus 23:15

386. To bring additional offerings on Shavuot--Numbers 28:26

387. To bring two loaves to accompany the above sacrifice--Leviticus 23:18

388. To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashanah--Numbers 29:2

389. To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur--Numbers 29:8

390. To bring additional offerings on Sukkot--Numbers 29:13

391. To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret--Numbers 29:35

392. Not to eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished--Deuteronomy 14:3

393. Not to eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions--Leviticus 7:18

394. Not to leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them--Leviticus 22:30

395. Not to eat from that which was left over--Leviticus 19:8

396. Not to eat from sacrifices which became impure--Leviticus 7:19

397. An impure person must not eat from sacrifices--Leviticus 7:20

398. To burn the leftover sacrifices--Leviticus 7:17

399. To burn all impure sacrifices--Leviticus 7:19

400. To follow the procedure of Yom Kippur in the sequence prescribed in the Torah--Leviticus 16:3

401. One who profaned holy property must repay what he profaned plus a fifth and bring a 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 it while in possession of 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. To eat the Paschal Lamb with Matzah and Maror on the night of the 15th of Nissan--Exodus 12:8

409. To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the 15th of Iyar--Numbers 9:11

410. Not to eat the Paschal meat raw or boiled--Exodus 12:9

411. Not to take the Paschal meat from the confines of its group--Exodus 12:46

412. An apostate must not eat from it--Exodus 12:43

413. A permanent or temporary [non-Jewish] hired worker must not eat from it--Exodus 12:45

414. An uncircumcised male must not eat from it--Exodus 12:48

415. Not to break any bones from the Paschal offering--Exodus 12:46

416. Not to break any bones from the second Paschal offering--Numbers 9:12

417. Not to leave any meat from the Paschal offering over until morning--Exodus 12:10

418. Not to leave the second Paschal meat over until morning--Numbers 9:12

419. Not to leave the meat of the holiday offering of the 14th until the 16th--Deuteronomy 16:4

420. To be seen at the Temple on Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot--Deuteronomy 16:16

421. To celebrate on these three Festivals (by bringing a offering)--Exodus 23:14

422. To rejoice on these three Festivals--Deuteronomy 16:14

423. Not to appear at the Temple without offerings--Deuteronomy 16:16

424. Not to refrain from rejoicing with, and giving gifts to, the Levites--Deuteronomy 12:19

425. To assemble all the people on the Sukkot following the seventh year [the king publicly reads portions of the Torah]--Deuteronomy 31:12

426. To set aside the firstborn animals [to be eaten by the Kohanim, and sacrificed unless they are blemished]--Exodus 13:12

427. The Kohanim must not eat unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem--Deuteronomy 12:17

428. Not to redeem the firstborn--Numbers 18:17

429. Separate the tithe from animals [to be eaten by the Kohanim, and sacrificed unless they are blemished]--Leviticus 27:32

430. Not to redeem the tithe--Leviticus 27:33

431. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression--Leviticus 4:27

432. Bring an asham talui offering when uncertain of guilt--Leviticus 5:17-18

433. Bring an asham vadai offering [for certain sins] when guilt is ascertained--Leviticus 5:25

434. Bring an oleh v'yored offering (if the person is wealthy, an animal; if poor, a bird or meal offering) [for certain sins]--Leviticus 5:7-11

435. The Sanhedrin must bring an offering when it rules in error--Leviticus 4:13

436. A woman who had a running issue must bring an offering after she goes to the Mikvah--Leviticus 15:28-29

437. A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she goes to the Mikvah--Leviticus 12:6

438. A man who had a running issue must bring an offering after he goes to the Mikvah--Leviticus 15:13-14

439. A metzora ("leprous" person -- see According to the Torah is Leprosy a hygienic problem or is it something spiritual and miraculous?) must bring an offering after going to the Mikvah--Leviticus 14:10

440. Not to substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice--Leviticus 27:10

441. The new animal, in addition to 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. Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead--Numbers 19:14

444. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer--Numbers 19:9

445. Carry out the laws of the sprinkling water [of the Red Heifer]--Numbers 19:21

446. Rule the laws of human tzara'at (Leprosy, see Mitzvah 439) as prescribed in the Torah--Leviticus 13:12

447. The metzora (leper) must not remove his signs of impurity--Deuteronomy 24:8

448. The metzora must not shave signs of impurity in his hair--Leviticus 13:33

449. The metzora must publicize his condition by tearing his garments, allowing his hair to grow and covering his mustache--Leviticus 13:45

450. Carry out the prescribed rules for purifying the metzora--Leviticus 14:2

451. The metzora must shave off all his hair prior to purification--Leviticus 14:9

452. Carry out the laws of "leprous" clothing--Leviticus 13:47

453. Carry out the laws of leprous houses--Leviticus 14:35

454. Observe the laws of menstrual impurity--Leviticus 15:19

455. Observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth--Leviticus 12:2

456. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman's running issue--Leviticus 15:25

457. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's running issue (irregular ejaculation of infected semen)--Leviticus 15:3

458. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast--Leviticus 11:39

459. Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight shratzim (rodents, amphibious creatures, and lizards) [specified in the Torah]--Leviticus 11:29

460. Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission (regular ejaculation, with normal semen)--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 Mikvah to become pure--Leviticus 15:16

463. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring beast--Exodus 21:28

464. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating--Exodus 22:4

465. The court must judge the damages incurred by a 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 scales and weights 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 the one who assaults another or damages another's property--Exodus 21:18

482. Not to murder--Exodus 20:13

483. Not to accept monetary restitution to atone for the 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 being sent to a city of refuge--Numbers 35:32

486. Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial--Numbers 35:12

487. 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 cities of refuge and prepare routes of access--Deuteronomy 19:3

491. Break the neck of a calf by a stream following an unsolved murder--Deuteronomy 21:4

492. To neither work nor plant that river valley--Deuteronomy 21:4

493. Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property--Deuteronomy 22:8

494. Make a guard rail around flat roofs--Deuteronomy 22:8

495. Not to put a stumbling block before a blind man (nor give harmful advice)--Leviticus 19:14

496. Help another remove the load from a beast which can no longer carry it--Exodus 23:5

497. Help others load their beast--Deuteronomy 22:4

498. Not to leave others distraught with their burdens (but to help either 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. Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws--Exodus 21:2

505. Not to sell him as a slave is sold--Leviticus 25:42

506. Not to work him oppressively--Leviticus 25:43

507. Not to allow a non-Jew to work him oppressively--Leviticus 25:53

508. Not to have him do menial slave labor--Leviticus 25:39

509. Give him gifts when he goes free--Deuteronomy 15:14

510. Not to send him away empty-handed--Deuteronomy 15:13

511. Redeem Jewish maidservants--Exodus 21:8

512. Betroth the Jewish maidservant--Exodus 21:8

513. The master must not sell his maidservant--Exodus 21:8

514. Canaanite slaves must work forever unless the owner amputates 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. Not to 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 an unpaid guard--Exodus 22:6

526. Lend to the poor and destitute--Exodus 22:24

527. Not to press them for payment if you know they don't have it--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 needed--Deuteronomy 24:13

531. Not to delay its return when 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--Leviticus 25:37

535. Not to borrow with interest--Deuteronomy 23:20

536. Not to intermediate in an interest loan, guarantee, witness, or write the promissory note--Exodus 22:24

537. Lend to and borrow from idolaters with interest--Deuteronomy 23:21

538. The courts 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. [In capital cases] the court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required--Exodus 23:2

544. A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases--Deuteronomy 23:2

545. The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning--Deuteronomy 22:24

546. The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning--Leviticus 20:14

547. The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword--Exodus 21:20

548. The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation--Leviticus 20:10

549. The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry--Deuteronomy 21:22

550. Bury the executed [as well as all deceased] on the day they are killed--Deuteronomy 21:23

551. Not to delay burial overnight--Deuteronomy 21:23

552. The court must not let the sorcerer live--Exodus 22:17

553. The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer--Exodus 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 do a crime--Deuteronomy 22:26

557. A judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial--Deuteronomy 19:13

558. A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial--Leviticus 19:15

559. A judge must not respect the great man at the trial--Leviticus 19:15

560. A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor--Exodus 23:6

561. A judge must not pervert justice--Leviticus 19:15

562. A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or 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 or leader of the Sanhedrin--Exodus 22:27

569. Not to curse any upstanding Jew--Leviticus 19:14

570. Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court--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. Relatives of the litigants must not testify--Deuteronomy 24:16

576. Not to testify falsely--Exodus 20:13

577. Punish the false witnesses with the same punishment they were seeking for the defendant--Deuteronomy 19:19

578. Act according to the ruling of the Sanhedrin--Deuteronomy 17:11

579. Not to deviate from the word of the Sanhedrin--Deuteronomy 17:11

580. Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations--Deuteronomy 13:1

581. Not to diminish from the Torah any commandments, in whole or in part--Deuteronomy 13:1

582. Not to curse your father or mother--Exodus 21:17

583. Not to strike your father or 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 be a rebellious son--Deuteronomy 21:20

587. Mourn for relatives--Leviticus 10:19

588. The High Priest must not defile himself through contact with a relative--Leviticus 21:11

589. The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse--Leviticus 21:11

590. A Kohen must not defile himself for anyone except 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. Wipe out the descendants of Amalek--Deuteronomy 25:19

599. Remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people--Deuteronomy 25:17

600. Not to forget Amalek's 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 inhabitants of a city while holding siege, and treat them according to the Torah if they accept the 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 the siege--Deuteronomy 20:19

605. Prepare latrines outside the army camps--Deuteronomy 23:13

606. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with--Deuteronomy 23:14

607. Appoint a priest to speak with the soldiers during the war--Deuteronomy 20:2

608. He who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard is given a year to rejoice with his possessions--Deuteronomy 24:5

609. Not to demand from the above any involvement, communal or military--Deuteronomy 24:5

610. Not to panic and retreat during battle--Deuteronomy 20:3

611. Keep the laws of the captive woman--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