Commandments

Practiced today

Commandments the catalog records as observable today — after the loss of the Temple and the Sanhedrin. A descriptive filter, not the only question that matters.

Commandments in this list

Showing 1–24 of 315 commandments · page 1 of 14.

  1. Positive commandment Exodus 20:2

    Commandment 1: To know that God exists as the ultimate and absolute being

  2. Negative commandment Exodus 20:3

    Commandment 2: Not to entertain the notion that there is any god besides YHWH

  3. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:4

    Commandment 3: To acknowledge the unity of God, that He is one and indivisible

  4. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:5

    Commandment 4: To love God with all one's heart, soul, and resources

  5. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:13

    Commandment 5: To fear God and stand in awe of His authority

  6. Positive commandment Leviticus 22:32

    Commandment 6: To sanctify the name of God publicly

  7. Negative commandment Leviticus 22:32

    Commandment 7: Not to profane or desecrate the name of God

  8. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 12:4

    Commandment 8: Not to destroy objects bearing the name of God

  9. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 6:16

    Commandment 10: Not to test or try God beyond what is proper

  10. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 28:9

    Commandment 11: To emulate the ways and attributes of God

  11. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 10:20

    Commandment 12: To cleave to those who know and serve God

  12. Positive commandment Leviticus 19:18

    Commandment 13: To love fellow Israelites as oneself

  13. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 10:19

    Commandment 14: To love the resident alien and stranger

  14. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:17

    Commandment 15: Not to hate a fellow Israelite in one's heart

  15. Positive commandment Leviticus 19:17

    Commandment 16: To rebuke a sinner and correct wrongdoing

  16. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:17

    Commandment 17: Not to put another person to shame publicly

  17. Negative commandment Leviticus 25:17

    Commandment 18: Not to oppress or wrong the weak or vulnerable

  18. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:16

    Commandment 19: Not to speak slanderously about another person

  19. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:18

    Commandment 20: Not to take vengeance against another

  20. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:18

    Commandment 21: Not to bear a grudge against another

  21. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:7

    Commandment 22: To study Torah and teach it diligently to one's children

  22. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:8

    Commandment 23: To bind tefillin on the head as a sign

  23. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:8

    Commandment 24: To bind tefillin on the arm as a sign

  24. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:9

    Commandment 25: To affix a mezuzah to the doorposts of one's house