Commandments About God and Idolatry

Positive Cammandments:

1. Believe in God

2. Believe God is One (Note: Trinitarians believe in one God)

3. Love God

4. Fear (Respect) God

5. Treat God as Holy

6. Walk in God's Ways

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't Think of Other God's

2. Don't Make Idols for Self

3. Don't Make Idols for Others

4. Don't Bow Down to Idols

5. Don't Worship Idols

6. Don't Swear by Idols

7. Don't Teach Idolatry

8. Don't Eat or Drink Things Offered to Idols

9. Don't Give Attention to Idols

10. Don't Benefit from Idols as Decore

11. Don't Benefit From Idol Practices

12. Don't Have Mercy on an Idolater

13. Don't Practice Heathen Customs

14. Don't Listen to Prophets of Idols

15. Don't Entice Into Idolatry

16. Don't Give Affection to an Enticer

17. Don't Stop Hating an Enticer

18. Don't Rescue an Enticer

19. Don't Become a Prophet for an Idol

20. Don't Cut Yourself for the Dead or Idols

21. Don't make an image of a human

22. Don't profane God's name

23. Don't go astray after the thought of your heart or the sight of your eyes

24. Don't destroy holy objects or names

25. Don't prophesy falsehood in the name of God

Commandments About Family and Sexuality

Positive Commandments:

1. Be Fruitful and Multiply

2. Marry by Ceremony

3. Perform Leverite Marriages

4. "Remove the Shoe" if Declining a Leverite Marriage

5. Circumcise Males on 8th Day

6. Consecrate 1st Born

7. Redeem 1st Born

Negative Commandments:

1. Do Not Marry a Non-Believer

2. Don't Deny Your Wife Her Marital Rights

3. Don't have inappropriate contact with kin even if it's non-intimate

4. Don't have intimate relations with father

5. Don't have intimate relations with mother

6. Don't have intimate relations with father's wife

7. Don't have intimate relations with uncle

8. Don't have intimate relations with daughter-in-law

9. Don't have homosexual intimate relations

10. Don't have intimate relations with an animal as a male

11. Don't receive intimate relations from an animal as a female

12. Don't have intimate relations with a grand-daughter

13. Don't have intimate relations with a daughter

14. Don't have intimate relations with both a woman and her daughter

15. Don't have intimate relations with both a woman and her son's daughter

16. Don't have intimate relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter

17. Don't commit adultery

18. Don't have intimate relations with your aunt who is not blood related

19. Don't have intimate relations with your sister-in-law

20. Don't have intimate relations with your sister

21. Don't have intimate relations with your brother's wife

22. Don't have intimate relations with your Aunt who is blood related via your father

23. Don't have intimate relations with your aunt who is blood related via your mother

24. Don't have intimate relations with your wive's sister

25. Don't have intimate relations with a woman during her period

26. Don't have intimate relations outside of marriage

27. Do not remarry a former wife who married another after your divorce

28. A childless widow shall not marry another man besides her deceased husband's brother

29. A man with crushed testes shall not marry a jewish woman

30. A bastard shall not marry a jewish woman

31. Don't emasculate any male being

Commandments About Holy Days

GENERAL COMMANDS:

Positive Commandments:

1. Be Happy on a Festival

SHABBAT:

Positive Commandments:

1. Declare Sabbath

2. Rest on Sabbath

3. Light Sabbath Candles (RABBINICAL)

4. Sabbath "Eruv" Boundary (RABBINICAL)

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't Work on the Sabbath

2. Don't Travel Too Far on Sabbath

PASSOVER/UNLEAVENED BREAD:

Positive Commandments:

1. Remove Leavened Bread

2. Eat Unleavened Bread

3. Tell Exodus Story on Passover

4. Rest on 1st Day of Unleavened Bread

5. Rest on 7th Day of Unleavened Bread

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't See Unleavened Bread in Home

2. Don't Have Unleavened Bread in Home

3. Don't Eat Unleavened Bread

4. Don't Eat a Mixture With Unleavened Bread

5. Don't work on the first day of unleavened bread

6. Don't work on the 7th day of unleavened bread

FIRSTFRUITS:

Positive Commandments:

1. Count the Omer

SHAVUOT/PENTACOST:

Positive Commandments:

1. Rest on Shavuot

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't work on Shavuot

ROSH HASHANA (YOM TERUAH)

Positive Commandments:

1. Rest on Rosh Hashana

2. Hear the Shofar

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't work on Rosh HaShanah

YOM KIPPUR

Positive Commandments:

1. Rest on Yom Kippur

2. Fast on Yom Kippur

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't work on Yom Kippur

SUKKOT

Positive Commandments:

1. Rest on the 1st Day of Sukkot

2. Dwell in a Sukkah

3. Take up the Lulav and Etrog

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't work on the 1st day of Sukkot

SHEMINI ATZARET/SIMCHAT TORAH

Positive Commandments:

1. Rest on Shemini Atzaret

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't work on Sh'mini Atzareth (8th day of Sukkot)

PURIM (RABBINICAL)

Positive Commandments:

1. Hear the book of Esther

2. Have a Festive Meal

3. Give 2 Food Items as Gifts

4. Give Charity to at least 2 of the Poor

HANNUKAH (RABBINICAL)

Positive Commandments:

1. Light the Menorah (8 Days)

2. Recite Hallel (Psalm 113-118)

Commandments About Work, Business , Money and Personal Property

Positive Commandments:

1. Give to the Poor

2. Lend to Poor

3. Give Back Pledges as Needed

4. Forgive Loans on Shemitah

5. Laborers Have Right to Eat

6. Pay Wages the Same Day

7. Return Stolen Property

8. Return What is Lost

Negative Commandments:

1. Do Not Keep Others Things That Do Not Belong To You

2. Don't Delay in Paying Wages

3. Don't Covet What Belongs to Others

4. Don't Crave What You Don't Have

5. Don't Cheat in Matters of Trade

6. Don't Demand Poor to Repay When They Have No Means

7. Don't Charge Interest to a Believer

8. Have no dealings between a lender and borrower at interest

9. Do not borrow from a believer at interest

10. Do not demand repayment if Sh'mittah has passed

11. Do not take a pledge of Utensils used to make sustaining food

12. Don't take pledges back by force

13. Do not take a widow's garment as a pledge

14. Do not withhold a pledge when needed

15. Don't use unjust weights

16. Don't possess diverse weights

17. Don't ignore lost things

18. Don't eat from the field you are working until the work is done

19. Don't steal produce from the field in which you work

Commandments About Respect

Positive Commandments:

1. Rise Up in the Presence of an Elder (Honor Your Seniors)

2. Have Reverence for a Sanctuary  (Church, Synagogue, Holy Place, etc.)

3. Honor Your Parents

4. Fear (Respect) Your Parents Authority

5. Honor a Kohen (Priest)

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't Hit a Parent

2. Do not Curse a Judge

3. Don't deviate from the words of great beth din (Religious Court)

Commandments About Prayer

Positive Commandments:

1. Pray 3 times a day (Morning, Afternoon. Night)

2. Recite Shema (Waking and before bed)

3. Say Grace After Meals

4. Confess and Repent of Sins

5. Say Hallel on Special Occasions (RABBINICAL)

6. Say Blessings for Certain Things (RABBINICAL)

7. Kohen (Priest) Blesses the People

Negative Commandments:

Commandments About Home and Land

Positive Commandments:

1. Place Mezuzahs

2. Put up Parapet (Railing)

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't move boundary markers

2. Don't sew two kinds of seed in a field

Commandments About Bible

Positive Commandments:

1. Learn and (eventually) Teach Torah

2. Write a Torah for Yourself (Acquire your own Bible)

3.  Learn from Torah Scholar (Pastor/teacher etc.)

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't add to the commandments of the Torah

2. Don't take away from the commandments of the Torah

Commandments About Food

Positive Commandments:

1. Wash Hands Before Eating Bread (RABBINICAL)

2. Perform Ritual Slaughter When Butchering for Food

3. Cover the Blood of Butchered Food

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't Eat Thigh Sinew

2. Don't eat animals killed by other animals

3. Don't eat forbidden fats

4. Don't eat blood

5. Don't eat part of a living animal

6. Don't cook meat in milk

7. Don't eat meat cooked in milk

8. Don't eat non-kosher animals

9. Don't eat non-kosher birds

10. Don't eat non-kosher fish

11. Don't eat winged swarming creatures

12. Don't eat ground swarming creatures

13. Don't eat worms

14. Don't eat water swarming creatures

15. Don't eat creeping creatures

16. Don't eat grain before omer offering

17. Don't eat toasted bread before omer offering

18. Don't eat ground grain before omer offering

19. Don't eat chametz after noon on day before passover

20. Don't eat from a fruit tree in it's first 3 years

21. Don't eat the food of a rebellious son

Commandments About Judging

Positive Commandments:

1. Deal with Cases of Anullments

2. Judge Sales

3. Judge Inheritances

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't appoint Unsuitable Judges

2. Don't hear only one side of a case

3. Do not pity the poor in a trial, judge everyone equal

4. Don't Deny Justice to Someone Just Because they are a sinner

5. Don't unfairly Judge an Orphan or a Convert

6. Do not judge unjustly

7. Do not show favor to an important person, judge equally

8. Don't take a bribe as a judge

9. Don't fear either party as a judge

10. Do not judge based on only 1 witness

11. Do not judge based on a close relative as a witness

12. Do not reject a sinner as a witness

Commandments About How to Treat Others

Positive Commandments:

1. Love Neighbor as Self

2. Love Strangers

3. Rebuke a Sinner

4. Remember Amalek

5. Decimate Amalek

Negative Commandments:

1. Do Not Murder

2. Do Not Kidnap

3. Do Not Steal

4. Do Not Rob by Force

5. Do Not Lie About Debts

6. Don't Hit Someone

7. Don't Oppress a Convert

8. Don't Cheat a Convert

9. Don't Oppress a Widow or Orphan

10. Don't Demand The Poor to Repay When They Have No Means

11. Do not be heartless to the poor

12. Do not cause someone to stumble into sin

13. Don't hate decent people

14. Don't shame people

15. Don't take revenge

16. Don't bear grudges

17. Don't fail to rescue those in danger

18. Don't forget Amalek

Commandments About Animals

Positive Commandments:

1. Redeem 1st Born Donkey

2. Break Neck of Unredeemed Donkey

3. Relieve an Overburdened Donkey

4. Help Load an Animal

5. Send Bird From Nest Before Taking Eggs

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't slay an animal and it's kid on the same day

2. Don't redeem the firstling of a pure kosher animal

3. Don't interbreed animals of different species

4. Don't plow with an ox and a donkey together

5. Don't fail to unburden an overladen animal

6. Don't stop an animal from eating while working

7. Don't take a bird with it's young

Commandments Regarding Occultic Practices

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't practice augury

2. Don't practice conjouring or soothsaying

3. Don't practice divination

4. Don't practice sorcery

5. Don't cast charms or spells

6. Don't be a medium

7. Don't practice wizardry

8. Don't inquire of a medium

9. Don't inquire of a wizard

10. Don't inquire of the dead

Commandments About Priests

Positive Commandments:

1. Kohen (Priest) Blesses the People

2. Give Kohen Tithes of Meat

3. Give Kohen Tithes of Wool

4. Give Kohen First Part of Bread

Negative Commandments:

1. A priest shall not become defiled by the dead

2. A priest shall not marry a non-jew

3. A priest shall not marry a profaned woman

4. A priest shall not marry a divorced woman

Commandments About the Body and Clothing

Negative Commandments:

1. Bind Tefillin on Your Head

2. Bind Tefillin on Your Arm

3. Wear Tzitzits

4. Don't make tattoos

5. Don't pluck your hair out for the dead

6. Don't shave the temples of the head

7. Don't shave the edges of the beard

8. A woman should not wear men's clothing

9. Men should not wear woman's clothing

10. Do not wear wool and linen together

Commandments About Speech

Positive Commandments:

1. Fulfil your Vows

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't Swear in Vain

2. Don't Swear Falsely in Money Matters

3. Don't Swear Falsely at All

4. Don't Give False Testimony

5. Don't Curse a Decent Person

6. Don't Curse a Parent

7. Don't Opress With Words

8. Don't Gossip

9. Don't fail to keep a vow

10. Don't delay to keep a vow

Other Misc. Commandments

Negative Commandments:

1. Don't remake the holy oil used in the temple

2. Don't remake the inscence used in the temple

3. Don't make a paving stone to bow down upon

4. Don't erect a pillar

5. Don't leave stumbling blocks

6. Don't destroy fruit trees during a siege

7. Don't live in Egypt

8. The unclean shall not enter the temple mount