- "you
shall love your
neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18). For some
mitzvot, the
purpose is
specified in the Torah; though, the
opinions of the Talmudic...
-
medieval rabbinic literature,
including many
works listing or
arranged by the
mitzvot. The most
famous of
these was an
enumeration of the 613
commandments by...
-
philosophy of the
mitzvot. He
classifies the
mitzvot into six categories: (1)
toroth (philosophical doctrines); The
ethical mitzvot fall
under (2) mishpatim...
- the
Written and Oral Torah.
Halakha is
based on
biblical commandments (
mitzvot),
subsequent Talmudic and
rabbinic laws, and the
customs and traditions...
-
Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (Hebrew: ספר מצוות גדול; in English: "The
Great Book of Commandments"; abbreviated: סמ"ג, "SeMaG") work of
halakha by
Moses ben Jacob...
- of the
Torah (
Mitzvot: 1 - 10) Laws
concerning temperament (
Mitzvot: 11 - 21) Laws
concerning studying Torah (
Mitzvot: 22 - 23) Laws concerning...
- 13th-century
French rabbi and tosafist, best
known as the
author of
Sefer Mitzvot Ḳatan.
Isaac was the son-in-law of R.
Yechiel of Paris,
whose yeshiva he...
-
literature as to
whether Torah study or
Mitzvot (Jewish observances) are
spiritually superior. The 613
Mitzvot themselves are able to be
divided into ethical...
-
mikveh (ritual bath), brit
milah (cir****cision), and the
acceptance of the
mitzvot (commandments of the Torah) as
binding – is the test of the would-be convert's...
- scholar,
Rabbi Yosef Qafih. In the work,
Maimonides lists all the 613
mitzvot traditionally contained in the
Torah (Pentateuch). He
describes the following...
