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 25–48 of 315 commandments · page 2 of 14.

  1. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 31:19

    Commandment 27: Each person shall write a Torah scroll for himself

  2. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 6:7

    Commandment 29: To recite the Shema prayer morning and evening

  3. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 8:10

    Commandment 30: To recite grace after meals when satisfied

  4. Positive commandment Numbers 15:38

    Commandment 31: To make fringes (tzitzit) on the corners of garments

  5. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 10:20

    Commandment 32: To swear by the name of God when taking an oath in truth

  6. Negative commandment Leviticus 19:12

    Commandment 33: Not to swear falsely by God's name

  7. Negative commandment Exodus 20:7

    Commandment 34: Not to take the name of God in vain

  8. Negative commandment Numbers 30:3

    Commandment 35: Not to violate an oath or vow made before God

  9. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 23:24

    Commandment 36: To fulfill what one has uttered with one's lips as a vow

  10. Positive commandment Numbers 30:9

    Commandment 37: A husband or father may annul the vow of a wife or daughter under specified conditions

  11. Negative commandment Numbers 6:5

    Commandment 39: A nazirite shall not cut his hair during the period of his vow

  12. Negative commandment Numbers 6:3

    Commandment 40: A nazirite shall not drink wine or any grape-derived beverage

  13. Negative commandment Numbers 6:3

    Commandment 41: A nazirite shall not eat fresh grapes

  14. Negative commandment Numbers 6:3

    Commandment 42: A nazirite shall not eat dried grapes or raisins

  15. Negative commandment Numbers 6:4

    Commandment 43: A nazirite shall not eat grape seeds

  16. Negative commandment Numbers 6:4

    Commandment 44: A nazirite shall not eat grape skins

  17. Negative commandment Numbers 6:7

    Commandment 45: A nazirite shall not become ritually impure by contact with a corpse

  18. Positive commandment Numbers 5:6-7

    Commandment 66: To confess sins before God and repent of wrongdoing

  19. Positive commandment Numbers 18:15

    Commandment 73: To redeem the firstborn son by paying five shekels to a priest

  20. Positive commandment Exodus 34:20

    Commandment 74: To redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb

  21. Positive commandment Exodus 13:13

    Commandment 75: To break the neck of the firstborn donkey if it is not redeemed

  22. Positive commandment Deuteronomy 16:14

    Commandment 95: To rejoice on the pilgrim festivals

  23. Negative commandment Deuteronomy 16:3

    Commandment 133: Not to eat leaven from the afternoon of the fourteenth of Nisan onward

  24. Negative commandment Exodus 13:3

    Commandment 134: Not to eat anything leavened during Passover