613 MITZVOTH (Mishneh Torah)

 

The following is a brief listing of the 613 commandments (mitzvot), as recorded and classified by Maimonides in the 12th century. This listing is taken from his classic compendium of Jewish law, the "Mishneh Torah," which contains 14 primary "books" or sections.

BOOK ONE: THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

Fundamentals of Torah:

1 To know there is a God Ex. 20:2

2 Not to entertain thoughts of other gods besides Him

Ex. 20:3

3 To know that He is one Deut. 6:4

4 To love Him Deut. 6:5

5 To fear Him Deut. 10:20

6 To sanctify His Name Lev. 22:32

7 Not to profane His Name Lev. 22:32

8 Not to destroy objects associated with His Name Deut. 12:4

9 To listen to the prophet speaking in His Name Deut. 18:15

10 Not to test the prophet unduly Deut. 6:16

Laws of Character

11 To emulate His ways Deut. 28:9

12 To cleave to those who know Him Deut. 10:20

13 To love Jews Lev. 19:18

14 To love converts Deut. 10:19

15 Not to hate fellow Jews Lev. 19:17

16 To reprove Lev. 19:17

17 Not to embarrass others Lev. 19:17

18 Not to oppress the weak Ex. 21:22

19 Not to speak derogatorily of others Lev. 19:16

20 Not to take revenge Lev. 19:18

21 Not to bear a grudge Lev. 19:18

 Laws of Torah Study

22 To learn Torah Deut. 6:7

23 To honor those who teach and know Torah Lev. 19:32

 Laws of Idolatry and Paganism

24 Not to inquire into idolatry Lev. 19:4

25 Not to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see Num. 15:39

26 Not to blaspheme Ex. 22:27

27 Not to worship idols in the manner they are worshiped Ex. 20:5

28 Not to worship idols in the four ways we worship God Ex. 20:5

29 Not to make an idol for yourself Ex. 20:4

30 Not to make an idol for others Lev. 19:4

31 Not to make human forms even for decorative purposes Ex. 20:20

32 Not to turn a city to idolatry Ex. 23:13

33 To burn a city that has turned to idol worship Deut. 13:17

34 Not to rebuild it as a city Deut. 13:17

35 Not to derive benefit from it Deut. 13:18

36 Not to missionize an individual to idol worship Deut. 13:12

37 Not to love the missionary Deut. 13:9

38 Not to cease hating the missionary Deut. 13:9

39 Not to save the missionary Deut. 13:9

40 Not to say anything in his defense Deut. 13:9

41 Not to refrain from incriminating him Deut. 13:9

42 Not to prophesize in the name of idolatry Deut. 13:14

43 Not to listen to a false prophet Deut. 13:4

44 Not to prophesize falsely in the name of God Deut. 18:20

45 Not to be afraid of killing the false prophet Deut. 18:22

46 Not to swear in the name of an idol Ex. 23:13

47 Not to perform ov (medium) Lev. 19:31

48 Not to perform yidoni (magical seer) Lev. 19:31

49 Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech Lev. 18:21

50 Not to erect a column in a public place of worship Deut. 16:22

51 Not to bow down on smooth stone Lev. 26:1

52 Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard Deut. 16:21

53 To destroy idols and their accessories Deut. 12:2

54 Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories Deut. 7:26

55 Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols Deut. 7:25

56 Not to make a covenant with idolaters Deut. 7:2

57 Not to show favor to them Deut. 7:2

58 Not to let them dwell in our land Ex. 23:33

59 Not to imitate them in customs and clothing Lev. 20:23

60 Not to be superstitious Lev. 19:26

61 Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc. Deut. 18:10

62 Not to engage in astrology Lev. 19:26

63 Not to mutter incantations Deut. 18:11

64 Not to attempt to contact the dead Deut. 18:11

65 Not to consult the ov Deut. 18:11

66 Not to consult the yidoni Deut. 18:11

67 Not to perform acts of magic Deut. 18:10

68 Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head Lev. 19:27

69 Men must not shave their beards with a razor Lev. 19:27

70 Men must not wear women's clothing Deut. 22:5

71 Women must not wear men's clothing Deut. 22:5

72 Not to tattoo the skin Lev. 19:28

73 Not to tear the skin in mourning Deut. 14:1

74 Not to make a bald spot in mourning Deut. 14:1

 Laws of Repentance

75 To repent and confess wrongdoings Num. 5:7

 

BOOK TWO: THE BOOK OF LOVE OF GOD

Laws of Reading the Shema

76 To say the Shema twice daily Deut. 6:7

 Laws of Prayer and Kohanic Blessings

77 To serve the Almighty with prayer daily Ex. 23:25

78 The Kohanim must bless the Jewish nation daily Num. 6:23

 Laws of Tefillin, Mezuza and Sefer Torah

79 To wear tefillin on the head Deut. 6:8

80 To bind tefillin on the arm Deut. 6:8

81 To put a mezuzah on each door post Deut. 6:9

82 Each male must write a Sefer Torah Deut. 31:19

83 The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself Deut. 17:18

 Laws of Tzitzit

84 To have tzitzit on four-cornered garments Num. 15:38

 Laws of Blessings

85 To bless the Almighty after eating Deut. 8:10

 Laws of Circumcision

86 To circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth Lev. 12:3

 BOOK THREE: THE BOOK OF SEASONS

Laws of the Sabbath

87 To rest on the seventh day Ex. 23:12

88 Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day Ex. 20:10

89 The court must not inflict punishment on Shabbat Ex. 35:3

90 Not to walk outside the city boundary on Shabbat Ex. 16:29

91 To sanctify the day with Kiddush and Havdallah Ex. 20:8

 Laws of Eruvin (Rabbinical)

 Laws of Yom Kippur Rest

92 To rest from prohibited labor Lev. 23:32

93 Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur Lev. 23:32

94 To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur Lev. 16:29

95 Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur Lev. 23:29

 Laws of Festival Rest

96 To rest on the first day of Passover Lev. 23:7

97 Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover Lev. 23:8

98 To rest on the seventh day of Passover Lev. 23:8

99 Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover Lev. 23:8

100 To rest on Shavuot Lev. 23:21

101 Not to do prohibited labor on Shavuot Lev. 23:21

102 To rest on Rosh Hashana Lev. 23:24

103 Not to do prohibited labor on Rosh Hashana Lev. 23:25

104 To rest on Sukkot Lev. 23:35

105 Not to do prohibited labor on Sukkot Lev. 23:35

106 To rest on Shmini Atzeret Lev. 23:36

107 Not to do prohibited labor on Shmini Atzeret Lev. 23:36

 Laws of Chometz and Matzah

108 Not to eat chametz on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nissan Deut. 16:3

109 To destroy all chametz on 14th day of Nissan Ex. 12:15

110 Not to eat chametz all seven days of Passover Ex. 13:3

111 Not to eat mixtures containing chametz all seven days of Passover Ex. 12:20

112 Not to see chametz in your domain seven days Ex. 13:7

113 Not to find chametz in your domain seven days Ex. 12:19

114 To eat matzah on the first night of Passover Ex. 12:18

115 To relate the exodus from Egypt on that night Ex. 13:8

 Laws of Shofar, Sukkah, Lulav

116 To hear the Shofar on the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashana) Num. 29:1

117 To dwell in a Sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot Lev. 23:42

118 To take up a Lulav and Etrog all seven days Lev. 23:40

 Laws of Shekalim

119 Each man must give a half shekel annually Ex. 30:13

 Laws of Sanctification of Months

120 Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins Ex. 12:2

 Laws of Fasts

121 To afflict and cry out before God in times of catastrophe Num. 10:9

 Laws of Megillah and Chanukah (Rabbinical)

 BOOK FOUR: THE BOOK OF WOMEN

Laws of Marriage

122 To marry a wife by means of ketubah and kiddushin Deut. 22:13

123 Not to have relations with women not thus married Deut. 23:18

124 Not to withhold food, clothing, and relations from your wife Ex. 21:10

125 To have children with one's wife Gen 1:28

 Laws of Divorce

126 To issue a divorce by means of a "get" document Deut. 24:1

127 A man must not remarry his wife after she has married someone else Deut. 24:4

 Laws of Yivum and Chalitzah (Levirate Marriage)

128 To do yibum (marry childless brother's widow) Deut. 25:5

129 To do chalitzah (freeing a widow from yibum) Deut. 25:9

130 The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed Deut. 25:5

  Laws of Women

131 The court must fine one who seduces a maiden Ex. 22:15-16

132 The rapist must marry the maiden (if she chooses) Deut. 22:29

133 He is not allowed to divorce her Deut. 22:29

134 The slanderer must remain married to his wife Deut. 22:19

135 He must not divorce her Deut. 22:19

 Laws of Sotah (Suspect Wife)

136 To fulfill the laws of the Sotah Num. 5:30

137 Not to put oil on her meal offering Num. 5:15

138 Not to put frankincense on her meal offering Num. 5:15

 BOOK FIVE: THE BOOK OF HOLINESS

Laws of Forbidden Relations

139 Not to have relations with your mother Lev. 18:7

140 Not to have relations with your father's wife Lev. 18:8

141 Not to have relations with your sister Lev. 18:9

142 Not to have relations with your father's wife's daughter Lev. 18:11

143 Not to have relations with your son's daughter Lev. 18:10

144 Not to have relations with your daughter Lev. 18:10

145 Not to have relations with your daughter's daughter Lev. 18:10

146 Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter Lev. 18:17

147 Not to have relations with a woman and her son's daughter Lev. 18:17

148 Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter Lev. 18:17

149 Not to have relations with your father's sister Lev. 18:12

150 Not to have relations with your mother's sister Lev. 18:13

151 Not to have relations with your father's brother's wife Lev. 18:14

152 Not to have relations with your son's wife Lev. 18:15

153 Not to have relations with your brother's wife Lev. 18:16

154 Not to have relations with your wife's sister Lev. 18:18

155 A man must not have relations with a beast Lev. 18:23

156 A woman must not have relations with a beast Lev. 18:23

157 Not to have homosexual relations Lev. 18:22

158 Not to have homosexual relations with your father Lev. 18:7

159 Not to have homosexual relations with your father's brother Lev. 18:14

160 Not to have relations with a married woman Lev. 18:20

161 Not to have relations with a menstrually impure woman Lev. 18:19

162 Not to marry non-Jews Deut. 7:3

163 Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:4

164 Don't keep a third generation Egyptian convert from marrying 

into the Jewish people Deut. 23:8-9

165 Not to refrain from marrying a third generation 

Edomite convert Deut. 23:8-9

166 Not to let a mamzer marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:3

167 Not to let a eunuch marry into the Jewish people Deut. 23:2

168 Not to castrate any male (including animals) Lev. 22:24

169 The High Priest must not marry a widow Lev. 21:14

170 The High Priest must not have relations with a widow even outside of marriage Lev. 21:15

171 The High Priest must marry a virgin maiden Lev. 21:13

172 A Kohen must not marry a divorcee Lev. 21:7

173 A Kohen must not marry a zonah (a woman who had forbidden relations) Lev. 21:7

174 A priest must not marry a chalalah (party to or product of 169-172) Lev. 21:7

175 Not to make pleasurable contact with any forbidden woman Lev. 18:6

 Laws of Forbidden Foods

176 To examine the signs of animals to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher Lev. 11:2

177 To examine the signs of fowl to distinguish between kosher 

and non-kosher Deut. 14:11

178 To examine the signs of fish to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher Lev. 11:9

179 To examine the signs of locusts to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher Lev. 11:21

180 Not to eat non-kosher animals Lev. 11:4

181 Not to eat non-kosher fowl Lev. 11:13

182 Not to eat non-kosher fish Lev. 11:11

183 Not to eat non-kosher flying insects Deut. 14:19

184 Not to eat non-kosher creatures that crawl on land Lev. 11:41

185 Not to eat non-kosher maggots Lev. 11:44

186 Not to eat worms found in fruit on the ground Lev. 11:42

187 Not to eat creatures that live in water other than fish Lev. 11:43

188 Not to eat the meat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter Deut. 14:21

189 Not to benefit from an ox condemned to be stoned Ex. 21:28

190 Not to eat meat of an animal that was mortally wounded Ex. 22:30

191 Not to eat a limb torn off a living creature Deut 12:23

192 Not to eat blood Lev. 3:17

193 Not to eat certain fats of clean animals Lev. 3:17

194 Not to eat the sinew of the thigh Gen. 32:33

195 Not to eat meat and milk cooked together Ex. 23:19

196 Not to cook meat and milk together Ex. 34:26

197 Not to eat bread from new grain before the Omer Lev. 23:14

198 Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer Lev. 23:14

199 Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer Lev. 23:14

200 Not to eat fruit of a tree during its first three years Lev. 19:23

201 Not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard Deut. 22:9

202 Not to eat untithed fruits Lev. 22:15

203 Not to drink wine poured in service to idols Deut. 32:38

 Laws of Slaughtering

204 To ritually slaughter an animal before eating it Deut. 12:21

205 Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day Lev. 22:28

206 To cover the blood (of a slaughtered beast or fowl) with earth Lev. 17:13

207 Not to take the mother bird from her children Deut. 22:6

208 To release the mother bird if she was taken from the nest Deut. 22:7

 BOOK SIX: THE BOOK OF OATHS

Laws of Oaths

209 Not to swear falsely in God's Name Lev. 19:12

210 Not to take God's Name in vain Ex. 20:7

211 Not to deny possession of something entrusted to you Lev. 19:11

212 Not to swear in denial of a monetary claim Lev. 19:11

213 To swear in God's Name to confirm the truth when deemed necessary by court Deut. 10:20

 Laws of Vows

214 To fulfill what was uttered and to do what was avowed Deut. 23:24

215 Not to break oaths or vows Num. 30:3

216 For oaths and vows annulled, there are the laws of 

annulling vows explicit in the Torah Num. 30:3

 Laws of The Nazir

217 The Nazir must let his hair grow Num. 6:5

218 He must not cut his hair Num. 6:5

219 He must not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar Num. 6:3

220 He must not eat fresh grapes Num. 6:3

221 He must not eat raisins Num. 6:3

222 He must not eat grape seeds Num. 6:4

223 He must not eat grape skins Num. 6:4

224 He must not be under the same roof as a corpse Num. 6:6

225 He must not come into contact with the dead Num. 6:7

226 He must shave after bringing sacrifices upon 

completion of his Nazirite period Num. 6:9

 Laws of Estimated Values and Vows

227 To estimate the value of people as determined by the Torah Lev. 27:2

228 To estimate the value of consecrated animals Lev. 27:12-13

229 To estimate the value of consecrated houses Lev. 27:14

230 To estimate the value of consecrated fields Lev. 27:16

231 Carry out the laws of interdicting possessions (cherem) Lev. 27:28

232 Not to sell the cherem Lev. 27:28

233 Not to redeem the cherem Lev. 27:28

 BOOK SEVEN: THE BOOK OF SEEDS

Laws of Mixed Species

234 Not to plant diverse seeds together Lev. 19:19

235 Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard Deut. 22:9

236 Not to crossbreed animals Lev. 19:19

237 Not to work different animals together Deut. 22:10

238 Not to wear sha'atnez, a cloth woven of wool and linen Deut. 22:11

 Laws of Gifts to the Poor

239 To leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor Lev. 19:10

240 Not to reap that corner Lev. 19:9

241 To leave gleanings Lev. 19:9

242 Not to gather the gleanings Lev. 19:9

243 To leave the gleanings of a vineyard Lev. 19:10

244 Not to gather the gleanings of a vineyard Lev. 19:10

245 To leave the unformed clusters of grapes Lev. 19:10

246 Not to pick the unformed clusters of grapes Lev. 19:10

247 To leave the forgotten sheaves in the field Deut. 24:19

248 Not to retrieve them Deut. 24:19

249 To separate the tithe for the poor Deut. 14:28

250 To give charity Deut. 15:8

251 Not to withhold charity from the poor Deut. 15:7

252 To set aside Trumah Gedolah (tithe for the Kohen) Deut. 18:4

253 The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe Num. 18:26

254 Not to preface one tithe to the next, but separate them in 

their proper order Ex. 22:28

255 A non-Kohen must not eat Trumah Lev. 22:10

256 A hired worker or a Jewish bondsman of a Kohen must 

not eat Trumah Lev. 22:10

257 An uncircumcised Kohen must not eat Trumah Ex.12:48

258 An impure Kohen must not eat Trumah Lev. 22:4

259 A chalalah must not eat Trumah Lev. 22:12

 Laws of Ma'aser

260 To set aside Ma'aser each planting year and give it to a Levite Num. 18:24

 Laws of The Second Tithe and Fourth Year Produce

261 To set aside the second tithe (Ma'aser Sheni) Deut. 14:22

262 Not to spend its redemption money on anything but 

food, drink, or ointment Deut. 26:14

263 Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni while impure Deut. 26:14

264 A mourner on the first day after death must not eat Ma'aser Sheni Deut. 26:14

265 Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni grains outside Jerusalem Deut. 12:17

266 Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni wine products outside Jerusalem Deut. 12:17

267 Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni oil outside Jerusalem Deut. 12:17

268 The fourth year crops must be totally for holy 

purposes like Ma'aser Sheni Lev. 19:24

269 To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year Deut. 26:13

 Laws of First Fruits and other Kohanic Gifts

270 To set aside the first fruits and bring them to the Temple Ex. 23:19

271 The Kohanim must not eat the first fruits outside Jerusalem Deut. 12:17

272 To read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation Deut. 26:5

273 To set aside a portion of dough for a Kohen Num. 15:20

274 To give the shoulder, two cheeks, and stomach of slaughtered animals 

to a Kohen Deut. 18:3

275 To give the first sheering of sheep to a Kohen Deut. 18:4

276 To redeem the firstborn sons and give the money to a Kohen Num. 18:15

277 To redeem the firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen Ex. 13:13

278 To break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it Ex. 13:13

 Laws of The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

279 To rest the land during the seventh year by not doing any 

work which enhances growth Ex. 34:21

280 Not to work the land during the seventh year Lev. 25:4

281 Not to work with trees to produce fruit during that year Lev. 25:4

282 Not to reap crops that grow wild that year in the normal manner Lev. 25:5

283 Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way Lev. 25:5

284 To leave free all produce which grew in that year Ex. 23:11

285 To release all loans during the seventh year Deut. 15:2

286 Not to pressure or claim from the borrower Deut. 15:2

287 Not to refrain from lending immediately before the release of 

the loans for fear of monetary loss Deut. 15:9

288 The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years Lev. 25:8

289 The Sanhedrin must sanctify the fiftieth year Lev. 25:10

290 To blow the Shofar on the tenth of Tishrei to free the slaves Lev. 25:9

291 Not to work the soil during the fiftieth year Lev. 25:11

292 Not to reap in the normal manner that which grows 

wild in the fiftieth year Lev. 25:11

293 Not to pick grapes which grew wild in the normal 

manner in the fiftieth year Lev. 25:11

294 Carry out the laws of sold family properties Lev. 25:24

295 Not to sell the land in Israel indefinitely Lev. 25:23

296 Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities Lev. 25:29

297 The Tribe of Levi must not be given a portion of the land in Israel, 

rather they are given cities to dwell in Deut. 18:1

298 The Levites must not take a share in the spoils of war Deut. 18:1

299 To give the Levites cities to inhabit and their surrounding fields Num. 35:2

300 Not to sell the fields but they shall remain the Levites' before and  after the Jubilee year Lev. 25:34

 BOOK EIGHT: THE BOOK OF SERVICE

Laws of The Temple

301 To build a Sanctuary Ex. 25:8

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

303 Not to climb steps to the altar Ex. 20:23

304 To show reverence to the Temple Lev. 1930

305 To guard the Temple area Num. 18:2

306 Not to leave the Temple unguarded Num. 18:5

 Laws of Temple Vessels and Employees

307 To prepare the anointing oil Ex. 30:31

308 Not to reproduce the anointing oil Ex. 30:32

309 Not to anoint with anointing oil Ex. 30:32

310 Not to reproduce the incense formula Ex. 30:37

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

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

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

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

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

316 To dedicate the Kohen for service Lev. 21:8

317 The kohanic work shifts must be equal during holidays Deut. 18:6-8

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

319 Not to tear the priestly garments Ex. 28:32

320 The breastplate must not be loosened from the Efode Ex. 28:28

 Laws of Entering the Temple

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

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

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

324 A Kohen must not enter the Temple indiscriminately Lev. 16:2

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

326 To send the impure from the Temple Num. 5:2

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

328 Impure people must not enter the Temple Mount area Deut. 23:11

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

330 An impure Kohen, following immersion, must wait until after sundown before returning to service Lev. 22:7

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

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

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

334 A Kohen with a temporary blemish must not serve Lev. 21:17

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

 Laws of Restrictions Concerning Sacrifices

336 To offer only unblemished animals Lev. 22:21

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

338 Not to slaughter it Lev. 22:22

339 Not to sprinkle its blood Lev. 22:24

340 Not to burn its fat Lev. 22:22

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

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

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

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

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

346 Not to offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot or the 

animal exchanged for a dog Deut. 23:19

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

348 To salt all sacrifices Lev. 2:13

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

 Laws of Sacrificial Procedure

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

351 Not to eat its meat Deut. 12:17

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

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

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

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

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

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

358 A non-Kohen must not eat sacrificial meat Ex. 29:33

359 To follow the procedure of the peace offering Lev. 7:11

360 Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood Deut. 12:17

361 To bring meal offerings as prescribed in the Torah Lev. 2:1

362 Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers Lev. 5:11

363 Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers Lev. 5:11

364 Not to eat the meal offering of the High Priest Lev. 6:16

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

372 Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard Deut. 12:13

 Laws of Constant and Additional Offerings

373 To offer two lambs every day Num. 28:3

374 To light a fire on the altar every day Lev. 6:6

375 Not to extinguish this fire Lev. 6:6

376 To remove the ashes from the altar every day Lev. 6:3

377 To burn incense every day Ex 30:7

378 To light the Menorah every day Ex. 27:21

379 The Kohen Gadol must bring a meal offering every day Lev. 6:13

380 To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on Shabbat Num 28:9

381 To make the show bread Ex. 25:30

382 To bring additional offerings on the New Month Num. 28:11

383 To bring additional offerings on Passover Num. 28:19

384 To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat Lev. 23:10

385 Each man must count the Omer - seven weeks from the day the new 

wheat offering was brought Lev. 23:15

386 To bring additional offerings on Shavuot Num. 28:26

387 To bring two leaves to accompany the above sacrifice Lev. 23:17

388 To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana Num. 29:2

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

390 To bring additional offerings on Sukkot Num. 29:13

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

 Laws of Disqualified Offerings

392 Not to eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished Deut. 14.3

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

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

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

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

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

398 To burn the leftover sacrifices Lev. 7:17

399 To burn all impure sacrifices Lev. 7:19

 Laws of Yom Kippur Service

400 To follow the procedure of Yom Kippur in the sequence 

prescribed in Parshat Acharei Mot Lev. 16:3

 Laws of Misusing Sanctified Property

401 One who profaned property must repay what he 

profaned plus a fifth and bring a sacrifice Lev. 5:16

402 Not to work consecrated animals Deut. 15:19

403 Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals Deut. 15:19

 BOOK NINE: THE BOOK OF SACRIFICES

Laws of Pascal Sacrifice

404 To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time Ex. 12:6

405 Not to slaughter it while in possession of leaven Ex. 23:18

406 Not to leave the fat overnight Ex. 23:18

407 To slaughter the second paschal lamb Num. 9:11

408 To eat the paschal lamb with matzah and Marror on the night of the 

15th of Nissan Ex. 12:8

409 To eat the second paschal lamb on the night of the 15th of Iyar Num.9:11

410 Not to eat the paschal meat raw or boiled Ex. 12:9

411 Not to take the paschal meat from the confines of the group Ex. 12:46

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

413 A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from it Ex. 12:45

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

415 Not to break any bones from the paschal offering Ex. 12:46

416 Not to break any bones from the second paschal offering Num. 9:12

417 Not to leave any meat from the paschal offering over until morning Ex. 12:10

418 Not to leave the second paschal meat over until morning Num. 9:12

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

 Laws of Pilgrim Offerings

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

421 To celebrate on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering) Ex. 23:14

422 To rejoice on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering) Deut. 16:14

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

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

425 To assemble all the people on the Sukkot following the seventh year Deut. 31:12

 Laws of First Born Animals

426 To set aside the firstborn animals Ex. 13:12

427 The Kohanim must not eat unblemished firstborn animals 

outside Jerusalem Deut. 12:17

428 Not to redeem the firstborn Num. 18:17

429 Separate the tithe from animals Lev. 27:32

430 Not to redeem the tithe Lev. 27:33

 Laws of Offerings for Unintentional Transgressions

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

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

433 Bring an asham vadai when guilt is ascertained Lev. 5:25

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

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

 Laws of Lacking Atonement

436 A woman who had a running issue must bring an offering 

after she goes to the Mikveh Lev. 15:28-29

437 A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she goes 

to the Mikveh Lev. 12:6

438 A man who had a running issue must bring an offering after he goes 

to the Mikveh Lev. 15:13-14

439 A metzora must bring an offering after going to the Mikveh Lev. 14:10

 Laws of Substitution of Sacrifices

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

441 The new animal, in addition to the substituted one, retains consecration Lev. 27:10

442 Not to change consecrated animals from one type of offering to another Lev. 27:26

 BOOK TEN: THE BOOK OF PURITY

Laws of Impurity of Human Dead

443 Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead Num. 19:14

 Laws of The Red Heifer

444 Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer Num. 19:2

445 Carry out the laws of the sprinkling water Num. 19:21

 Laws of Impurity through Tzara'at

446 Rule the laws of human tzara'at as prescribed in the Torah Lev. 13:12

447 The metzora must not remove his signs of impurity Deut. 24:8

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

449 The metzora must publicize his condition by tearing his garments, 

allowing his hair to grow and covering his lips Lev. 13:45

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

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

452 Carry out the laws of tzara'at of clothing Lev. 13:47

453 Carry out the laws of tzara'at of houses Lev. 13:34

 Laws of Impurity of Reclining and Sitting

454 Observe the laws of menstrual impurity Lev. 15:19

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

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

457 Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's running issue Lev. 15:3

 Laws of Other Sources of Impurity

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

459 Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight shratzim Lev. 11:29

460 Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission Lev. 15:16

 Laws of Impurity of Food

461 Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods Lev. 11:34

 Laws of Vessels (Rabbinical)

 Laws of Mikveh

462 Every impure person must immerse himself in a Mikveh to become pure Lev. 15:16

 BOOK ELEVEN: THE BOOK OF DAMAGES

Laws of Property Damage

463 The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox Ex. 21:28

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

465 The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit Ex. 21:33

466 The court must judge the damages incurred by fire Ex. 22:5

 Laws of Theft

467 Not to steal money stealthily Lev. 19:11

468 The court must implement punitive measures against the thief Ex. 21:37

469 Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate Lev. 19:36

470 Not to commit injustice with scales and weights Lev. 19:35

471 Not to possess inaccurate scales and weights even if they are not for use Deut. 25:13

472 Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone's property Deut. 19:14

473 Not to kidnap Ex. 20:13

 Laws of Robbery and Lost Objects

474 Not to rob openly Lev. 19:13

475 Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt Lev. 19:13

476 Not to covet and scheme to acquire another's possession Ex. 20:14

477 Not to desire another's possession Deut. 5:18

478 Return the robbed object or its value Lev. 5:23

479 Not to ignore a lost object Deut. 22:3

480 Return the lost object Deut. 22:1

481 The court must implement laws against the one who assaults 

another or damages another's property Ex. 21:18

 Laws of Murder and Preservation of Life

482 Not to murder Ex. 20:13

483 Not to accept monetary restitution to atone for the murderer Num. 35:31

484 The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge Num. 35:25

485 Not to accept monetary restitution instead of being 

sent to a city of refuge Num. 35:32

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

487 Save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer Deut. 25112

488 Not to pity the pursuer Num. 35:12

489 Not to stand idly by if someone's life is in danger Lev. 19:16

490 Designate cities of refuge and prepare routes of access Deut. 19:3

491 Break the neck of a calf by the river valley following an unsolved murder Deut. 21:4

492 Not to work nor plant that river valley Deut. 21:4

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

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

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

496 Help another remove the load from a beast which can 

no longer carry it Ex. 23:5

497 Help others load their beast Deut. 22:4

498 Not to leave others distraught with their burdens (but to help either load or unload) Deut. 22:4

 BOOK TWELVE: THE BOOK OF ACQUISITION

Laws of Sales

499 Buy and sell according to Torah law Lev. 25:14

500 Not to overcharge or underpay for an article Lev. 25:14

501 Not to insult or harm anybody with words Lev. 25:17

502 Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily Ex. 22:20

503 Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words Ex. 22:20

 Laws of Acquisitions and Gifts (Rabbinical)

 Laws of Neighbors (Rabbinical)

 Laws of Agents and Partners (Rabbinical)

 Laws of Slaves

504 Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws Ex. 21:2

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

506 Not to work him oppressively Lev. 25:43

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

508 Not to have him do menial slave labor Lev. 25;39

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

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

511 Redeem Jewish maidservants Ex. 21:8

512 Betroth the Jewish maidservant Ex. 21:8

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

514 Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs Lev. 25:46

515 Not to extradite a slave who fled to Israel Deut. 23:16

516 Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge Deut. 23:16

 BOOK THIRTEEN: THE BOOK OF JUDGEMENTS

Laws of Hiring

517 The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard Ex. 22:9

518 Pay wages on the day they were earned Deut. 24:15

519 Not to delay payment of wages past the agreed time Lev. 19:13

520 The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works Deut. 23:25

521 The worker must not eat while on hired time Deut. 23:26

522 The worker must not take more than he can eat Deut. 23:25

523 Not to muzzle an ox while plowing Deut. 25:4

 Laws of Borrowing and Depositing

524 The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower Ex. 22:13

525 The courts must carry out the laws of an unpaid guard Ex. 22:6

 Laws of Creditor and Debtor

526 Lend to the poor and destitute Ex. 22:24

527 Not to press them for payment if you know they don't have it Ex. 22:24

528 Press the idolater for payment Deut. 15:3

529 The creditor must not forcibly take collateral Deut. 24:10

530 Return the collateral to the debtor when needed Deut. 24:13

531 Not to delay its return when needed Deut. 24:12

532 Not to demand collateral from a widow Deut. 24:17

533 Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food Deut. 24:6

534 Not to lend with interest Lev.25:37

535 Not to borrow with interest Deut. 23:20

536 Not to intermediate in an interest loan, guarantee, witness, 

or write the promissory note Ex. 22:24

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

 Laws of Plaintiff and Defendant

538 The courts must carry out the laws of the 

plaintiff, admitter, or denier Ex. 22:8

 Laws of Inheritance

539 Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance Num. 27:8

 BOOK FOURTEEN: THE BOOK OF JUDGES

Laws of Sanhedrin and Punishments

540 Appoint judges Deut. 16:18

541 Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure Deut. 1:17

542 Decide by majority in case of disagreement Ex. 23:2

543 The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required Ex. 23:2

544 A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an 

argument for conviction in capital cases Deut. 23:2

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

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

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

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

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

550 Bury the executed on the day they are killed Deut.21:23

551 Not to delay burial overnight Deut. 21:23

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

553 The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer Ex. 25:2

554 The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes Deut. 25:3

555 The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence Ex. 23:7

556 The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime Deut. 22:26

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

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

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

560 A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor Ex. 23;6

561 A judge must not pervert justice Lev. 19:15

562 A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or orphan Deut. 24:17

563 Judge righteously Lev. 19:15

564 The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment Deut. 1:17

565 Judges must not accept bribes Ex. 23:8

566 Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present Ex. 23:1

567 Not to curse judges Ex. 22:27

568 Not to curse the head of state or leader of the Sanhedrin Ex. 22:27

569 Not to curse any upstanding Jew Lev. 19:14

 Laws of Evidence

570 Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court Lev. 5:1

571 Carefully interrogate the witness Deut. 13:15

572 A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes Deut. 19:17

573 Not to accept testimony from a lone witness Deut. 19:15

574 Transgressors must not testify Ex. 23:1

575 Relatives of the litigants must not testify Deut. 24:16

576 Not to testify falsely Ex. 20:13

577 Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant Deut. 19:19

 Laws of Insurgents

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

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

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

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

582 Not to curse your father and mother Ex. 21:17

583 Not to strike your father and mother Ex. 21:15

584 Respect your father or mother Ex. 20:12

585 Fear your father or mother Lev. 19:3

586 Not to be a rebellious son Deut. 21:18

 Laws of Mourning

587 Mourn for relatives Lev. 10:19

588 The High Priest must not defile himself for any relative Lev. 21:11

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

590 A Kohen must not defile himself for anyone except relatives Lev. 21:1

 Laws of Kings and their Wars

591 Appoint a king from Israel Deut. 17:15

592 Not to appoint a convert Deut. 17:15

593 The king must not have too many wives Deut. 17:17

594 The king must not have too many horses Deut. 17:16

595 The king must not have too much silver and gold Deut. 17:17

596 Destroy the seven Canaanite nations Deut. 20:17

597 Not to let any of them remain alive Deut. 20:16

598 Wipe out the descendants of Amalek Deut. 25:19

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

600 Not to forget Amalek's atrocities and ambush on our journey 

from Egypt in the desert Deut. 25:19

601 Not to dwell permanently in Egypt Deut. 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 Deut. 20:10

603 Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them Deut. 23:7

604 Not to destroy fruit trees even during the siege Deut. 20:19

605 Prepare latrines outside the camps Deut. 23:13

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

607 Appoint a priest to speak with the soldiers during the war Deut. 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 Deut. 24:5

609 Not to demand from the above any involvement, 

communal or military Deut. 24:5

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

611 Keep the laws of the captive woman Deut. 21:11

612 Not to sell her into slavery Deut. 21:14

613 Not to retain her for servitude after having relations with her Deut. 21:14

Sources:

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OSCAR ICHAZO ON THE ENNEAGRAM PLAIGARISTS AND GURDJIEFF

 

Oscar Ichazo examines the claims of the Enneagram plaigarists and Transpersonal mythomaniacs --- that he copied everything from G.I. Gurdjieff.  In the process, he explains, in detail, the sources and influences that led him (Ichazo) to develop Arica  Theory.    He compares Arica Theory to other systems, including the plaigairists' and mythomaniacs' distortions.

WHY MUSLIMS AND LEFTISTS HATE JEWS by Prof. Paul Eidelberg 2015

 

Ten Years Before the Nuclear Deal with Iran:  Why Muslims and Leftists Hate Jews

 Prof. Paul Eidelberg

 Ever hear of Zeev Breir’s book Even in the Darkest Moments (2002)?   The book is about the Chevra Hatzalah Ambulance Service, a Jewish organization that was quite active during the darkest moments of 9/11, when Islamic suicide bombers destroyed the Twin Towers. I am going to quote and paraphrase a few passages from this book to reveal why the Mullahs of Iran, indeed why Muslims in general, hate Jews. Afterwards, I will explain why Leftists hate Jews.

Chevra Hatzalah, the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States, was founded in the late 1960s in Brooklyn, New York. Hatzalah organizations now function in Israel, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Panama, Belgium,Switzerland, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, and at least five states in the US. It operates throughout New York City of 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is run by 850 volunteer, emergency care providers.  “Hatzalah” – from the Hebrewl’hatzil, to rescue – is totally committed to the sanctity of human life, something unknown to Islam, whose adherents exulted in 9/11.

Hatzalah provides a high level of professional, pre-hospital live saving treatment and transportation absolutely free of charge to anyone who calls, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity.  This is why Muslims hate Jews, a hatred ignored by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his boss, Barack Obama – both leftists, both indifferent to Iran’s malediction “Death to America.”

Hatzalah’s mantra is LIFE.  Hatzalah response time to emergency calls is 2.5 to 4 minutes.  Nothing like this anywhere.

Hatzalah also provides additional support to the patient and their families by assisting with social services, blood bank, and related services. All this is consistent with the Jewish principle that “Whoever saves even one life, it is as if he saved an entire world.”  This is beyond the mentality of Islam. No wonder Muslims hate Jews.

Hatzalah was the first ambulance to arrive at the World Trade Center following the horrific Muslim attacks of September 11, 2001.  By the time the second plane crashed into the second tower, there were 24 Hatzalah ambulances and more than 100 Hatzalah EMTs, paramedics, and doctors on the scene.  At the South end of the Twin Towers, Hatzalah was the predominant ambulance service covering the disaster.  Hatzalah rescued thousands of men women, and children, with never a thought about their racial or ethnic identity.  No wonder Muslims hate Jews.

But why should the Left hate Jews? Isn’t the Left famous for its humanitarianism and opposition to racial and ethnic discrimination?  Indeed, haven’t Jews been among the most prominent stalwarts of the Left?  Are these Jews Chomsky-like Jew-haters?  And what do the Left and Islam have in common that unites them in hatred of Jews and Israel?

I was once asked by a prominent Catholic, “Why are Jews so often Leftists?”  I replied: “Because they’re afraid to stand up as Jews.  They want to hide Jewish particularism in the obscurity of universalism or internationalism – the haven of the Left.  In other words, they want to appear as Christians without the Christian God!

Like their patron saint, Karl Marx, a Jewish-born Jew-hater, the Left deplores the nation-state system as an artificial entity that divides mankind and leads to war.  It is by means of war, however, that Islam would put an end to the nation-state because it divides Islamdom.

The Left, parading as democrats, actually consists of elitists who despise the unenlightened, tradition-oriented masses. Muslims, led by tradition-oriented autocrats, display an unconcealed arrogance toward the masses, i.e., “infidels.”

Muslims and Leftists hate the God of Israel if only because He creates what they abhor – distinct nations, free yet faithful to universal moral laws.  But what is more, the God of Israel creates unique individuals, whose freedom is God’s blessing. Jewish law forbids sacrificing the individual for the sake of the community. The Jerusalem Talmud states: “If gentiles [surrounding Israel] demand, ‘Surrender one of yourselves to us and we will kill him; otherwise we shall kill all of you,’ they must all suffer death rather than surrender a single Israelite to them” Given this exaltation of the individual, no wonder Muslims and Leftists hate Judaism as well as Jews.

But now we can better appreciate the difference between Jews and Muslims on the one hand, as well as the difference between Jews and Leftists on the other.  Like Hatzalah, the faithful Jew is the true friend of humanity. He appreciates (and learns from) the diversity of nations without succumbing to non-judgmentalism or moral relativism. Truth-oriented and grateful for the divine gift of freedom, he refuses to impose truth on non-Jews.

While the Jew deplores the stultifying hence perverted monotheism of Islam, he deems religion as the last barrier to the stultifying materialism of the Left.

The Jew, faithful and free, must rise and rescue (l’hatzil) mankind from these twin tyrannies. This task, forsaken by America, is the task of Israel. When Israel cuts off the head of the snake in Iran, America may have a new birth of freedom!

https://israelnewstalkradio.com/why-muslims-and-leftists-hate-jews/

PHANTOM NATION - Inventing the "Palestinians" as the obstacle to peace

 

THE LOTTERY 1969

Details of contemporary small-town American life are embroidered upon a description of an annual rite known as "the Lottery". In a small, unnamed village of about 300 residents, the locals are in an excited yet nervous mood on June 27. Children pile up stones as the adults assemble for their annual event, which is apparently practiced to ensure a good harvest; Old Man Warner quotes an old proverb, "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." However, some nearby villages have already discontinued the lottery, and rumors are spreading that others are considering doing the same. Some in the village respond that the lottery has always been conducted, and should continue every year henceforth.

THE S.S. by M.P. Shiel 1923

 

"To say that there are epidemics of suicide is to give expression to what is now a mere commonplace of knowledge. And so far are they from being of rare occurrence, that it has even been affirmed that every sensational case of felo de se published in the newspapers is sure to be followed by some others more obscure: their frequency, indeed, is out of all proportion with the extent of each particular outbreak."

THE HOLINESS OF SIN by Gershom Scholem

In turning to consider the Sabbatian movement after Sabbatai Zevi’s conversion to Islam, ... we find ourselves still standing before a blank wall, not only of misunderstanding, but often of an actual refusal to understand.

What Must Also be Said - Prof. Hillel Weiss in Brussels 2012

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11657

Excerpts from Professor Weiss' epic opening speech before the European Parliament Conference meeting on the topic of Peace in the Middle East. Tuesday, May 15th.

From Professor Hillel Weiss

“Ye shall love truth and peace,” says the prophet.

Peace cannot be based on a lie! There is no truth without peace and no peace without truth. This is written is written in the Bible and accepted in natural law. Truth is based on justice whose role is to save the oppressed from the hand of his oppressor.

The question that we face is: Who is the oppressor and who is the victim? Who is the occupier and who is being deprived? For those who are devoted to what is written in the Bible, the issues are clear and simple.

But for now, let us look at international law, which is binding, and begin with a short survey:

Professor Alan Dershowitz, a Jewish liberal, moderate leftist, and lover of Israel, one of the top legal experts in the United States, has again recently condemned the International Court of Justice at Hague for delivering political decisions.

This is in contrast to the International Criminal Court at the Hague which refused to act as a rubber stamp: It did not recognize Palestine as a state and rejected a series of proposed resolutions that Palestinians submitted against Israel for war crimes, during “Operation Cast Lead”.

Dershowitz levels lethal criticism against the UN, among others, as the leader of the double standard against Israel, and regards it as a corrupt organization that aids and abets terror.

And indeed, after three “Durban Conventions” , after the prostitution of the word ‘racism’, and after accepting Libya in 2003 as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights, much like in May 2012 -  and now in May 2012, accepting Syria to that same position as a leading member of the Commission on Human Rights and the representative of Asia - every honest person must view the UN as a cynical group whose main concern is to protect terrorism.

It is the main cause of the corruption of the ethics of human rights as formulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations itself, the gift to the world of the French Jew, Rene Cassin.

We have mentioned the Jewish contribution to the struggle against racism and we shall again mention that the Torah of the people of Israel, preceding every other monotheistic religion that purports to supplant it, was the first to claim that “There is one father of us all”, blacks and whites, Arabs, Germans, and Jews, and that father is Adam.

And therefore, if there is a non-racist message in the history of mankind, it is in the Torah of the people of Israel.

The religion of Israel is its national religion - and this and only this element is what defines its identity as a nation – and allows every human being the option to convert to Judaism. To be Jewish is not a matter of race or blood.

It is only barbaric peoples, who rummaged around looking for racial purity, who should rightly be called ‘racists’. For example, the Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas, who has said more than once that in the Palestine he envisages, there is no room for Jews.

In the same interview that Dershowitz gave to the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon on April 27 , 2012, he says “Western society has a tremendous problem today with international law, which has become in many cases a source of evil and which serves the hardcore left and Islamist right as ammunition against the democratic values of the West (...)”

The hardcore left was never interested in law and justice. Its ideology permits the use of the law for political purposes. In his opinion, “the State of Israel must create for itself an independent corpus of international law that will be reflected in the decisions of its High Court of Justice and will be based on the principles of international law.”

...The law known as “Human Dignity and Freedom” , a Basic Law in the State of Israel, should make it illegal to expel a Jew from his own land, but does not. The entire law was legislated for the “other”. The law was designed for the Arab population but is a dead letter/ a law no longer enforced for the Jews who are known as ‘settlers’. That was what happened with the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from their land which is recognized in international law as the national home of the Jewish people alone, as we shall see shortly.

An American justice provides strong support for our position – a Jew who sits on the Federal Appellate Court, Richard Posner, who wrote a scathing critique of the judicial theory of retired Israeli High Court Justice Aharon Barak. Posner’s critique appeared in an article written on the English edition of Barak’s book Judge in a Democratic Society.

The article was published in the New Republic and in it, Posner attacks Barak in the sharpest language: “Barak establishes a world record for judicial hubris,”(...) He is a legal buccaneer”.  According to Posner, his writing is “to be considered Exhibit A for why American judges should be extremely wary about citing foreign judicial decisions.[…]”

“What Barak created out of whole cloth was a degree of judicial power undreamed of even by our most aggressive Supreme Court justices […]But only in Israel (as far as I know) do judges confer the power of abstract review on themselves, without benefit of a constitutional or legislative provision. One is reminded of Napoleon's taking the crown out of the pope's hands and putting it on his own head.”

Let us return to the central issue: Is a Jew living in Israel in areas that were liberated by the Israeli Army in 1967 indeed a foreign occupier who is violating the Geneva Convention designed to protect human rights, to prevent the theft and dispossession of an occupied people?

And in the Land of Israel under the international law in effect today , is the Jew a foreign occupier of a territory that does not belong to him, but to a state that does not exist and never existed, a state called by the name of Palestine?

In the words of its own heads such as Yassar Arafat, Faisal Husseini, Zuhair Mohsen of the terror organization Al Saika, and even former Knesset member Azmi Bashara - all of it was invented for no other purpose than to be a Trojan horse whose reason for existing is to destroy the state of Israel.

Only a week ago, one of the Hamas leaders from Gaza was photographed imploring Egypt and complaining of the lack of raw materials. He says: We are all brothers. Half of the PA Arab families in Gaza are called al-Masri, meaning from Egypt, and they come from Egypt and the other half from Saudia Arabia. The film may be seen on Youtube.

Dr. Ohana-Arnon, in his article on the origin of the Arab immigrants, says: “Palestinian society is built on a clan or hamula system. The origin of the hamula can be learned from its name: the al-Masri hamula is from Egypt., al-Hindi from India, al-Mugrabi from Algeria, al-Ajami from Iran, al-Turki from Turkey., al-Hawari from Hawara in northern Sudan, now living in Nazareth. Al-Araqi is from Iraq (they settled in the Israeli cities of Tira and Taibeh). Abu-Kask is from Egypt settled (in the inner coastal region) Huran from Mt. Huran – Mt. Druzim south of Damascus, Bushnak from Bosnia (now in Caesarea). Masarwa –from Egypt. Habash from Ethiopia, now in Lod. Barnawi from Borno in Nigeria, now in Jerusalem, Turkeman from the Causcasus.

Not all of the Arabs in the land of Israel are immigrants, but it is foolish to ignore two basic facts: first: that from the late 19th century and until the British mandate, there was a great wave of Arab migration towards Israel, and the second – that in order to create a significant “refugee problem” UNWRA determined in an arbitrary and unprecedented manner that only two years of residence in the country before 1948 is sufficient to define a person as a Palestinian refugee for all of his life, allowing him and his descendants to demand the “right of return.

The world’s enthusiasm for the Palestinian issue does not attest to a sense of justice but to a fervent hatred of Israel. The nations say: “Let us go and destroy them from among the nations, and the name of Israel shall no longer be remembered”. This is the garden-variety brand of anti-Semitism, which must inevitably bounce back to those who launch it, when they will feel remorse and shame. The punishment for nations who try to dispossess the people of Israel from God’s land and take it over is written many times in the Book of Books. I will just refer you to one chapter regarding the nations being judged in the Valley of Jehosaphat, from the Book of Joel, chapter 4:

1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and divided My land.

12 Let the nations be stirred up, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

16 And the LORD shall roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shall shake; but the LORD will be a refuge unto His people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain; then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

This is the question that confronts us here too. Did the Jews conquer a country which was not theirs and mistreat the original inhabitants? Or perhaps it is exactly the opposite: the Arabs’ continuing conquest of the Land of Israel and now of Europe as well is the topic of the discussion.

The foreign occupation is Arab occupation – and it doesn’t matter if it began in the 7th century. The Ottoman conquest was stopped in Vienna in 1683, the Moslems conquered the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and were expelled from there hundreds of years later in the Reconquista. Rome occupied Israel and destroyed the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount in the year 70, expelling al the Jews from their land.

Everything that has been happening since is a continuation of this conquest and occupation. Each time there has been a new conqueror and occupier until the present day when the true owners of the land are finally returning and putting an end to a 2000 year occupation.

The God of Israel who has a design for human history- the God of the universe keeps an account. An account of every Jew who perished in the Holocaust, as well as in Egypt under the Pharaohs who embedded Jewish infants in bricks.

Wherever they hurt, strangled, and slaughtered Jews, the God who keeps accounts will come and when it pleases Him, He will exact payment. About that, we have no doubts...

Gunter Grass is a friend of the radical left in Israel. Grass likes to cite the influence of Israeli writer Amos Oz on the subject of Israel. The Israeli leftists deny the natural and normal right of self-defense to the State of Israel, like Charles de Gaulle who denied Israel the right to the first shot. No one denies Israel its classic right to be the victim.

Even if Israel were destroyed - God forbid - by Iran, it would not have the moral right to make a second strike, according to the Goldstone Report. Just like the Turkish response to our stopping the flotilla to Gaza, so would be the nations of the world’s reaction to an Israeli victory over Iran. That is a very sick thought.

Professor Alan Dershowitz said in his interview: “First I want to say that those Israelis are not only the greatest enemies of Israel; they are also the most dangerous”. He mentions names and adds: “These are all people who wrap themselves in the Israeli flag just so they can burn it”.

The State of Israel has been radically poisoned by accusations of occupation until it does not notice that it itself has been occupied by groups of assimilated or kowtowing Jews.

That is not to mention the anarchists who criticize us every day of the year organized and funded by authorities who turn a blind eye and abandon the army to their provocations. Israel has wittingly and unwittingly opened its gates wide to all that seek her destruction. And that is not just a metaphor. Other examples are encouraging the illegal African immigrants who come to Israel by the thousands, flooding the country

But look at yourselves in Europe today. How did you get to where you are? Was it those ideologies that deny nationalism under the guise of multiculturalism, inventing the obligation to identify with the legitimacy of the enemy’s narrative and obliterating truth as a basic tool of human existence.

Have they not destroyed morality, law, science, and the economy?

Have they not destroyed the culture of the West?

The radical left argues that nationalism, all nationalism, is the religion of the murderers. Now all over Europe we are hearing more and more voices of regret over the multicultural tactic which means Europe surrendering without firing a shot. That is the main reason that the Right is winning elections in European countries such as France, and the reason that I was invited here.

But those sleeping European leaders continue, they still continue to encourage the establishment of a Palestinian state with all the enormous resources they possess. They invest hundreds of billions into a black hole. As long as this contradiction exits, Europe will continue to turn into Eurabia.

Cosmopolitan perceptions open the doors of Europe to millions of work immigrants and give them the rights of citizens. Very soon there will be no Europe, as your host city proves. Why is the false claim that “Islam is shaking off the post-colonial conquest in Europe” not accepted in Europe, and why is it applied to Israel as an occupying nation? What is this double standard of morality?

Indeed, one of the examples of international law in the view of universal justice is found in the Bible. Certainly an enlightened individual would ask himself what is the validity of the Bible. What is the validity of God? Has he left His job or changed the rules and forgot to inform us?

Is the Bible the last refuge of the scoundrel? Church heads in the Middle East as well as extreme rightwing Islamists maintain that the Jews of today have no connection to the nation mentioned in the Bible! And indeed these things are examined every day.

The very fact that there are six million Jews in the Land of Israel today organized into a state and not like ashes that were spewed out at Auschwitz and scattered over the continent is perhaps proof that God’s power is greater than the power of all the enemies of Israel from within and from without. If so, who is right? Does justice represent only the entity by whose hand it is suppressed? Does it represent only might and woe to the vanquished?

In 1947 the Arabs refused the UN General Assembly proposal to partition the Land of Israel into two states. A recommendation which was not accepted as a decision. It was refused and the seven Arab countries launched a war against the State of Israel on its first day of existence. Israel had accepted the recommendation to partition. The Arabs were defeated in battle as usual.

But Jordan illegally occupied the territory that was designated for an Arab state that didn’t exist and never had. This occupation was recognized only by Pakistan and Great Britain. When Jordan was defeated in 1967, and expelled from the territory by the State of Israel, the territory reverted to its original owners both according to the Bible and to positivist international law of today.

What is interesting here is international law and Israel did restore to itself the territory that Britain had received as a mandate in 1920 from the League of Nations at the San Remo Conference, a mandate for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. Without infringing upon the personal rights and religious rights of the non-Jewish inhabitants of the land, namely the Arabs. That is the legal status to this day.

Appearing on the website of the Land of Israel loyalists is a document, written by Yoel Lerner, a student of the legal expert Howard Grief together with Gedalia Glazar, that shows the continuity of international law and conventions on this subject.

The one who conquers territory from a conqueror wins that area. We Jews say that what is called potentially Palestine under the partition proposal known as resolution 181 was purified through Abdullah father of Hussein and with the defeat of his son , and his willing surrender of the West Bank in 1988. And the Peace Agreement between Israel and Jordan 1994, according to which Jordan gave up all her claims in the west bank.

We are not occupiers in our own homeland. That was also said by Netanyahu in his speech to both Houses of Congress last year. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the same thing, thanks to the organization that we have established “the Land of Israel Loyalists” developed by legal scholars Howard Grief, Eliav Shochetman, and Talya Einhorn.

However, because Israel law has been occupied by the left, and for other psycho-political reasons, Israel has generally refrained from using these arguments because it feels that rights which are based on the Bible are not suited to an enlightened state.

The State of Israel’s obsessive pursuit of peace, peace until the last Jew, is a dangerous compulsion that inflames the hatred of our enemies and intensifies all future war.

At times it seems that for an unattainable peace, Israel is prepared to risk the lives of its citizens and to hand over its God-given land to its enemies, not only as a recognition of the value of peace but as a desire for legitimacy which it seeks from the nations of the world, especially from its neighbors. King David, the poet of the psalms, related to this in his psalm about neighbors and peace, for example in Psalm 120:

1 A Song of Ascents.
In my distress I called unto the LORD, and He answered me.
2 O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech, that I dwell beside the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath full long had her dwelling with him that hates peace.
7 I am all peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

That is why the State of Israel has been making a mistake ever since it was established when it makes so-called peace its top priority as an attainable goal, instead of decisively defeating the enemy that sees peace as only a strategy to improve their ability to destroy us.

Islam is rife with concepts involving deception such as Hudna and Tahadia which are proof of Mohammed betraying the tribe of Qurayish and his treachery against the tribes of Jews at Khayber as a symbol of his ethics in dealing with my people, the people of the Book.

To this very day the Battle of Khaybar serves as source of inspiration for Moslem soldiers in their wars, especially against Israel. During the first intifada the demonstrators shouted slogans like “Khaybar Khaybar ya yehud, Jaish Mihammad sa-yaud” meaning “Remember Khaybar, Jews, Muhammad’s army will yet return” or “Khaybar, Khaybar Jews, to Palestine we will yet return”.

Therefore one cannot sign any peace treaty with followers of Muhammad. No hudna or tahadia can be the basis of negotiations. Who in the Jewish side negotiating even tactically on the basis of these concepts can assume responsibility for the consequences of these so-called agreements, such as for example, the peace treaty with Egypt which is collapsing now with a great crash.

Peace is not a strategy. 

In conclusion, I will relate in brief to the status of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel under international law. This is in complete contradiction of the false and malicious propaganda that is poisoning the entire world as though the Jewish people, acting through its representative the State of Israel, is acting in violation of international law.

It began with the Balfour Declaration in 1917 through the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement in 1919, which is the only Jewish-Arab peace agreement, then to the important resolutions of the San Remo Conference in 1920 where the international community gave the Jewish people a national homeland which included both banks of the Jordan River.

Great Britain, acting according to its standard norm, betrayed this idea in 1922 and tore off the east bank of the Jordan from the Jewish national homeland. Even after this deed of “perfidious Albion”, the resolution was approved - that the entire west bank of the Jordan belongs to the Jewish people as a national home.

According to senior jurists, this decision is in effect and binding to this very day. It was ratified among other places in Article 80 of the UN charter which recognized all of the resolutions that under the Mandate had given rights as binding resolutions.

In contrast, the 1947 partition plan was a recommendation of the UN Assembly only and remained a recommendation which was even rejected by the Arabs who responded by launching a war against Israel that very day to annihilate it. This is what caused the refugee problem which they carefully preserve to this day to use as a weapon against the state of Israel and the Jewish people and to rob the public funds.

The claims that the State of Israel is violating the Fourth Geneva Convention under which one is prohibited from expelling a population and settling another in its stead are propaganda slogans with no basis in law. As one of the top legal experts in the world has said, this is the irony of the absurd, because Israel expelled no one from the occupied territories of a state.

The 'settlers' went joyfully to settle in their own land as part of the Divine process of Redemption ...

Those who call themselves Palestinians are not a people and they have no state. No one displaced them. Indeed, the opposite is true – Israel rehabilitated them and gave them a chance to live normal lives. The only ones in the Middle East who live this way, in what is known the Arab space, act in submission to incitement and extreme ingratitude, and use their usual culture of falsehood to fight Israel.

The Middle East has indeed collapsed.

The San Remo agreements fell because the artificial states that were created as a result of the temporary victory of the Allies in World War I was obliterated by everything that happened in the Middle East.

States like Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq are in various stages of disintegration mainly because of their own tribal rivalries and internal religious wars.

The West did manage to maintain the situation for some one hundred years through a system of bribery. But now the end has come, together with the Arab Spring.

It is still not clear what will happen in Egypt except for chaos, but the West bears heavy responsibility for what is happening in Syria and Iraq. The fall of the Qadaffi regime has repercussions all over Africa and is causing continued bloodshed that no one can solve. The UN as usual shows itself to be a factor that encourages wars and not a peace maker.

Let the Arab and Moslem nationalists return to their national habitat, and the Jews to theirs, as Abraham divided the lands between himself and his nephew Lot and between Ishmael and his brothers, and peace and truth may you love for the sake of G-d's name.

THE TRUE BELIEVER - Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer 1951

 

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GAMES - from "Games People Play" by Eric Berne 1964

 PART III Beyond Games

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The Significance of Games

1.   GAMES are passed on from generation to generation. 

The favored game of any individual can be traced back to his parents and grandparents, and forward to his children; they in turn, unless there is a successful intervention, will teach them to his grandchildren. 

Thus game analysis takes place in a grand historical matrix, demonstrably extending back as far as one hundred years and reliably projected into the future for at least fifty years. 

Breaking this chain which involves five or more generations may have geometrically progressive effects. 

There are many living individuals who have more than 200 descendants. Games may be diluted or altered from one generation to another, hut there seems to be a strong tendency to inbreed with people who play a game of the same family, if not of the same genus. 

That is the historical significance of games.

2.   "Raising" children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play. 

Different cultures and different social classes favor different types of games, and various tribes and families favor different variations of these. That is the cultural significance of games.

3.   Games are sandwiched, as it were, between pastimes and intimacy. 

Pastimes grow boring with repetition, as do promotional cocktail parties. Intimacy requires stringent circumspection, and is discriminated against by Parent, Adult and Child. 

Society frowns upon candidness, except in privacy; good sense knows that it can always be abused; and the Child fears it because of the unmasking which it involves. 

Hence in order to get away from the ennui of pastimes without exposing themselves to the dangers of intimacy, most people compromise for games when they are available, and these fill the major part of the more interesting hours of social intercourse. 

That is the social significance of games.

4.  People pick as friends, associates and intimates other people who play the same games. 

Hence "everybody who is anybody" in a given social circle (aristocracy, juvenile gang, social club, college campus, etc.) behaves in a way which n:ay seem quite foreign to members of a different social circle. 

Conversely, any member of a social circle who changes his games will tend to be extruded, but he will find himself welcome at some other social circle. 

That is the personal significance of games.

 

NOTE

The reader should now be in a position to appreciate the basic difference between mathematical and transactional game analysis. Mathematical game analysis postulates players who are completely rational. Transactional game analysis deals with games which are un-rational, or even irrational, and hence more real.