The 365 Negative Commandments

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The 365 Negative Commandments
Mitzvah	Lesson #
1 - Believing in or ascribing any deity to any but Him	5
2 - Making images for the purpose of worship	13
3 - Making an idol (even for others) to worship	13
4 - Making figures of human beings	13
5 - Bowing down to an idol	13
6 - Worshipping idols	13
7 - Handing over some of our offspring to Molech	14
8 - Practicing the sorcery of the ove	14
9 - Practicing the sorcery of the yidde'oni	14
10 - Studying idolatrous practices	13
11 - Erecting a pillar which people will assemble to honor	15
12 - Making figured stones upon which to prostrate ourselves	15
13 - Planting trees in the Sanctuary	15
14 - Swearing by an idol	14
15 - Diverting people to idolatry	13
16 - Seeking to persuade an Israelite to worship idols	14
17 - Loving the person who seeks to mislead him into idolatry	14
18 - Relaxing one's aversion to the misleader	14
19 - Saving the life of the misleader	14
20 - Pleading for the misleader	14
21 - Oppressing evidence which is unfavorable to the misleader	14
22 - Benefiting from ornaments which have adorned an idol	15
23 - Rebuilding an apostate city	13
24 - Deriving benefit from the property of an apostate city	13
25 - Increasing our wealth from anything connected with idolatry	15
26 - Prophesying in the name of an idol	14
27 - Prophesying falsely	14
28 - Listening to the prophecy of one who prophesies in the name of an idol	14
29 - Refraining from a killing, or being afraid of, a false prophet	14
30 - Adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers	15
31 - Practicing divination	15
32 - Regulating our conduct by the stars	15
33 - Practicing the art of the soothsayer	15
34 - Practicing sorcery	16
35 - Practicing the art of the charmer	16
36 - Consulting a necromancer who uses the ove	16
37 - Consulting a sorcerer who uses the yido'a	16
38 - Seeking information from the dead	16
39 - Women wearing men's clothes or adornments	16
40 - Men wearing women's clothes or adornments	16
41 - Imprinting any marks upon our bodies	16
42 - Wearing Shatnes (a garment of wool and linen)	122
43 - Shaving the temples of the head	16
44 - Shaving the beard	16
45 - Making cuttings in our flesh	16
46 - Settling in the land of Egypt	338
47 - Following one's heart and eyes	13
48 - Making a covenant with the Seven Nations of Canaan	15
49 - Sparing a life of the Seven Nations	337
50 - Showing mercy to idolaters	15
51 - Allowing idolaters to settle in our land	15
52 - Intermarrying with heretics	92
53 - Intermarrying with a male Ammonite and Moabite	92
54 - Excluding descendants of Esav	92
55 - Excluding descendants of Egyptians	92
56 - Offering peace to Ammon and Moav	338
57 - Destroying fruit-trees during a siege	338
58 - Fearing the heretics in time of war	339
59 - Forgetting what Amalek did to us	337
60 - Blaspheming the Great Name	13
61 - Violating a shevuas bittui (oath of utterance)	105
62 - Swearing a shevuas shav (vain oath)	106
63 - Profaning the Name of G-d	7
64 - Testing His promises and warnings	8
65 - Breaking down houses of worship or destroying holy books	7
66 - Leaving the body of a criminal hanging overnight after execution	315
67 - Interrupting the watch over the Sanctuary	150
68 - The High Priest entering the Sanctuary at any but the prescribed time	154
69 - A Priest with a blemish entering the Sanctuary from the Altar inwards	155
70 - A Priest with a blemish ministering in the Sanctuary	155
71 - A Priest with a temporary blemish ministering in the Sanctuary	155
72 - The Levites and Priests performing each other's allotted services	152
73 - Entering the Sanctuary or giving a decision on Torah law while intoxicated	153
74 - A zar (stranger) ministering in the Sanctuary	156
75 - An unclean Priest ministering in the Sanctuary	155
76 - A Priest who is a tevul yom ministering in the Sanctuary	155
77 - Any unclean person entering any part of the Sanctuary	154
78 - Any unclean person entering the camp of the Levites	154
79 - Building an Altar of stones which have been touched by iron	148
80 - Ascending the Altar by steps	148
81 - Extinguishing the Altar Fire	165
82 - Offering any sacrifice whatever on the Golden Altar	151
83 - Making oil like the Oil of Anointment	150
84 - Anointing any one except the High Priests and Kings with the Oil of Anointment prepared by Moshe	150
85 - Making incense like that used in the Sanctuary	151
86 - Removing the staves from their rings in the Ark	151
87 - Removing the Breastplate from the Ephod	153
88 - Tearing the edge of the High Priest's robe	153
89 - Offering sacrifices outside the Sanctuary Court	165
90 - Slaughtering holy offerings outside the Sanctuary Court	164
91 - Dedicating blemished animals to be offered upon the Altar	156
92 - Slaughtering blemished animals as a korban	156
93 - Dashing the blood of blemished beasts upon the Altar	156
94 - Burning the sacrificial portions of a blemished beast upon the Altar	157
95 - Sacrificing a beast with a temporary blemish	157
96 - Offering blemished sacrifices of a gentile	157
97 - Causing an offering to become blemished	157
98 - Offering leaven or honey upon the Altar	158
99 - Offering a sacrifice without salt	158
100 - Offering on the Altar the "hire of a harlot" or the "price of a dog"	158
101 - Slaughtering the mother and her young on the same day	101
102 - Putting olive oil on the meal-offering of a sinner	162
103 - Putting frankincense with the meal-offering of a sinner	162
104 - Mingling olive oil with the meal-offering of a suspected adulteress	86
105 - Putting frankincense on the meal-offering of a suspected adulteress	87
106 - Changing a beast that has been consecrated as a offering	193
107 - Changing one holy offering for another	194
108 - Redeeming the firstling of a clean beast	184
109 - Selling the tithe of cattle	186
110 - Selling devoted property	118
111 - Redeeming devoted land without any specific statement of purpose	119
112 - Severing the head of the bird of a Sin-offering during melikah	160
113 - Doing any work with a dedicated beast	177
114 - Shearing a dedicated beast	178,179
115 - Slaughtering the Pesach offering while Chometz remains in our possession	179
116 - Leaving the sacrificial portions of the Pesach offering overnight	179
117 - Allowing any of the meat of the Pesach offering to remain until morning	182
118 - Allowing any of the meat of the Festival offering of the fourteenth of Nissan to remain until the third day	182
119 - Allowing any of the meat of the Pesach Sheni offering to remain until morning	182
120 - Allowing any of the meat of the thank-offering to remain until morning	170
121 - Breaking any of the bones of the Pesach offering	181
122 - Breaking any of the bones of the Pesach Sheni offering	181
123 - Removing the Pesach offering from where it is eaten	181
124 - Baking the residue of a meal-offering with leaven	163
125 - Eating the Pesach offering boiled or raw	181
126 - Allowing a ger toshav to eat the Pesach offering	181
127 - An uncircumcised person eating the Pesach offering	181
128 - Allowing an apostate Israelite to eat the Pesach offering	181
129 - An unclean person eating hallowed food	172
130 - Eating meat of consecrated offerings which have become unclean	172
131 - Eating nosar (beyond allotted time)	171
132 - Eating piggul (improper intentions)	169
133 - A zar eating terumah	128
134 - A Priest's tenant or hired servant eating terumah	128
135 - An uncircumcised Priest eating terumah	129
136 - An unclean Priest eating terumah	129
137 - A chalalah eating holy food	130
138 - Eating the meal-offering of a Priest	162
139 - Eating meat of Sin-offerings whose blood has been brought within the Sanctuary	160
140 - Eating the invalidated consecrated offerings	168
141 - Eating the unredeemed second tithe of corn outside Yerushalayim	137
142 - Consuming the unredeemed second tithe of wine outside Yerushalayim	137
143 - Consuming the unredeemed second tithe of oil outside Yerushalayim	137
144 - Eating an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim	184
145 - Eating the sin-offering and the guilt-offering outside the Sanctuary Court	161
146 - Eating the meat of a burnt-offering	159
147 - Eating lesser holy offerings before dashing their blood on the Altar	162
148 - A zar eating the most holy offerings	140
149 - A Priest eating first-fruits outside Yerushalayim	161
150 - Eating an unredeemed unclean second tithe, even in Yerushalayim	136
151 - Eating the second tithe during mourning	136
152 - Spending the redemption money of the second tithe except on food and drink	135
153 - Eating tevel (produce from which the heave-offering and tithes were not taken)	100
154 - Altering the prescribed order of harvest tithing	127
155 - Delaying payment of vows	163
156 - Appearing in Sanctuary on a festival without a sacrifice	183
157 - Infringing any oral obligation, even if undertaken without an oath	111
158 - A Priest marrying a zonah	93
159 - A Priest marrying a chalalah	93
160 - A Priest marrying a divorced woman	93
161 - A High Priest marrying a widow	93
162 - A High Priest having intercourse with a widow	93
163 - Priests with disheveled hair entering the Sanctuary	153
164 - Priests wearing rent garments entering the Sanctuary	153
165 - Ministering Priests leaving the Sanctuary	154
166 - A common priest defiling himself for any dead person except those prescribed in Scripture	334,335
167 - A High Priest being under one roof with a dead body	333
168 - A High Priest defiling himself for any dead person	332
169 - Levites taking a portion in the Land	147
170 - Levites sharing in the spoil on the conquest of the Land	147
171 - Tearing out our hair for the dead	16
172 - Eating any unclean animal	95
173 - Eating any unclean fish	96
174 - Eating any unclean fowl	95
175 - Eating any swarming winged insect	96
176 - Eating anything which swarms upon the earth	96
177 - Eating any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter	96
178 - Eating living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit	96
179 - Eating any swarming thing	97
180 - Eating an animal which is a nevelah	97
181 - Eating an animal which is a terefah	98
182 - Eating a limb of a living creature	98
183 - Eating the gid hanasheh (sinew of thigh-vein	98
184 - Eating blood	98
185 - Eating the fat of a clean animal	98
186 - Cooking meat in milk	99
187 - Eating meat cooked in milk	99
188 - Eating the flesh of a stoned ox	97
189 - Eating bread made from the grain of the new crop	99
190 - Eating roasted grain of the new crop	99
191 - Eating fresh ears of grain	99
192 - Eating orlah	99
193 - Eating kilai hakerem	100
194 - Drinking yain nesech (libation-wine used for idol worship)	100
195 - Excessive eating and drinking	331
196 - Eating on Yom Kippur	50
197 - Eating chometz during Pesach	54
198 - Eating an admixture of chometz during Pesach	54
199 - Eating chametz after the middle of the fourteenth of Nissan	53
200 - Chametz being seen in our habitations during Pesach	55
201 - Possessing chametz during Pesach	55
202 - A Nazir drinking wine	114
203 - A Nazir eating fresh grapes	114
204 - A Nazir eating dried grapes	114
205 - A Nazir eating the kernels of grapes	115
206 - A Nazir eating the husks of grapes	115
207 - A Nazir rending himself unclean for the dead	115
208 - A Nazir rending himself unclean by entering a house containing a corpse	115
209 - A Nazir shaving	113
210 - Reaping all the harvest without leaving a corner for the poor	122
211 - Gathering ears of corn that fell during the harvest	123
212 - Gathering the whole produce of the vineyard at vintage time	123
213 - Gathering single fallen grapes during the vintage	124
214 - Returning for a forgotten sheaf	124
215 - Sowing kilayim (diverse kinds of seed in one field)	119
216 - Sowing grain or vegetables in a vineyard	120
217 - Making animals of different species	121
218 - Working with two different kinds of animals together	121
219 - Preventing a beast from eating of the produce amidst which it is working	292
220 - Cultivating the soil in the seventh year	143
221 - Pruning trees in the seventh year	143
222 - Reaping a self-grown plant in the seventh year as in an ordinary year	143
223 - Gathering a self-grown fruit in the seventh year as in an ordinary year	144
224 - Cultivating the soil in the Jubilee year	145
225 - Reaping the aftergrowths of the Jubilee year as in an ordinary year	145
226 - Gathering fruit in the Jubilee year as in an ordinary year	145
227 - Selling our holdings in Eretz Yisrael in perpetuity	146
228 - Selling the open lands of the Levites	147
229 - Forsaking the Levites	183
230 - Demanding the payment of debts after the Sabbatical year	144
231 - Withholding a loan to be canceled by the Sabbatical year	144
232 - Failing to give charity to our needy brethren	125
233 - Sending away a Hebrew bondman empty-handed	286
234 - Demanding payment from a debtor known to be unable to pay	295
235 - Lending at interest	300
236 - Borrowing at interest	301
237 - Participating in a loan at interest	302
238 - Oppressing an employee by delaying payment of his wages	289
239 - Taking a pledge from a debtor by force	297
240 - Keeping a needed pledge from its owner	298
241 - Taking a pledge from a widow	299
242 - Taking in pledge food utensils	299
243 - Abducting an Israelite	249
244 - Stealing money	247
245 - Committing robbery	250
246 - Fraudulently altering land boundaries	249
247 - Usurping our debts	251
248 - Repudiating our debts	107
249 - Swearing falsely in repudiating a debt	107
250 - Wronging one another in business	265,266
251 - Wronging one another by speech	267,268
252 - Wronging a proselyte by speech	271,272
253 - Wronging a proselyte in business	269,270
254 - Handing over a fugitive bondman	287
255 - Wronging a fugitive bondman	287
256 - Dealing harshly with orphans and widows	10
257 - Employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks	285
258 - Selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction	285
259 - Having a Hebrew bondman do unnecessary work	285
260 - Allowing the maltreatment of a Hebrew bondman by a heathen	285
261 - Selling a Hebrew bondmaid	286
262 - Afflicting one's espoused Hebrew bondmaid by diminishing food, raiment or conjugal rights; similar law applies to one's wife	74,75
263 - Selling a captive woman	339
264 - Enslaving a captive woman	339
265 - Planning to acquire another's property	252
266 - Coveting another's belongings	253
267 - A hired laborer eating growing crops	291
268 - A hired laborer putting of the harvest in his own vessel	291
269 - Ignoring lost property	255
270 - Leaving a trapped person without assisting him with his burden	262
271 - Cheating in measurements and weights	248
272 - Keeping false weights and measures	248
273 - A judge committing unrighteousness	318
274 - A judge accepting gifts from litigants	319
275 - A judge favoring a litigant	318
276 - A judge being deterred by fear of a wicked person from giving a just judgment	319
277 - A judge deciding in favor of a poor man through pity	318
278 - A judge perverting judgment against a person of evil repute	318
279 - A judge pitying one who has slain a man or caused the loss of a limb	318
280 - A judge perverting the justice due to proselytes or orphans	319
281 - A judge listening to one of the litigants in the absence of another	320
282 - A court convicting in a capital case by a majority of one	314
283 - A judge relying on the opinion of a fellow judge; arguing for conviction after favoring acquittal	314
284 - Appointing an unlearned judge	313
285 - Bearing false witness	327
286 - A judge receiving a wicked man's testimony	325
287 - A judge receiving testimony from a litigant's relative	326
288 - Convicting on the testimony of a single witness	324
289 - Killing a human being	258
290 - Capital punishment based on circumstantial evidence	317
291 - A witness acting as an advocate	323
292 - Killing a murderer without a trial	259
293 - Sparing the life of a pursuer	260
294 - Punishing a person for a sin committed under duress	317
295 - Accepting ransom from one who has committed murder unwittingly	258
296 - Accepting ransom from one who has committed willful murder	259
297 - Neglecting to save an Israelite in danger of his life	260
298 - Leaving obstacles on public or private domain	261
299 - Giving misleading advice	262
300 - Inflicting excessive corporal punishment	316
301 - Bearing tales	10
302 - Hating one another	9
303 - Putting one to shame	9
304 - Taking vengeance on one another	10
305 - Bearing a grudge	10
306 - Taking the entire bird's nest (mother and young)	103
307 - Shaving the scull	208
308 - Cutting or cauterizing signs of leprosy	208
309 - Ploughing a valley in which the rite of eglah arufah has been performed	261
310 - Permitting a sorcerer to live	316
311 - Taking a bridegroom away from his home during first year	339
312 - Differing from traditional authorities	329
313 - Adding to the Written or Oral Law	329
314 - Detracting from the Written or Oral Law	329
315 - Cursing a judge	320
316 - Cursing a ruler	320
317 - Cursing any Israelite	321
318 - Cursing parents	330
319 - Smiting parents	330
320 - Working on Shabbos	39,40,48
321 - Going beyond city limits on Shabbos	43,44,49
322 - Punishing on Shabbos	41,42
323 - Working on the first day of Pesach	51
324 - Working on the seventh day of Pesach	51
325 - Working on Atzeres	52
326 - Working on Rosh HaShanah	52
327 - Working on the first day of Sukkos	53
328 - Working on Shemini Atzeres	53
329 - Working on Yom Kippur	50
330 - Having relations with one's mother	87
331 - Having relations with one's father's wife	87
332 - Having relations with one's sister	87
333 - Having relations with the daughter of one's father's wife if she be his sister	87
334 - Having relations with one's son's daughter	87
335 - Having relations with one's daughter's daughter	88
336 - Having relations with one's daughter	88
337 - Having relations with a woman and her daughter	88
338 - Having relations with a woman and her son's daughter	88
339 - Having relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter	88
340 - Having relations with one's father's sister	89
341 - Having relations with one's mother's sister	89
342 - Having relations with the wife of one's father's brother	89
343 - Having relations with one's son's wife	89
344 - Having relations with a brother's wife	89
345 - Having relations with a sister of his wife during the latter's lifetime	89
346 - Having relations with a menstruant	91
347 - Having relations with another man's wife	91
348 - Men lying with beasts	90
349 - Women lying with beasts	90
350 - A man lying carnally with a male	90
351 - A man lying carnally with his father	90
352 - A man lying carnally with his father's brother	91
353 - Intimacy with a kinswoman	94
354 - A mamzer having relations with a Jewish Woman	92
355 - Having relations with a woman without marriage	71,72,73
356 - Re-marrying one's divorced wife after she has remarried	80,81,82
357 - Having relations with a woman subject to Levirate marriage	84
358 - Divorcing a woman he has raped and been compelled to marry	85
359 - Divorcing a woman after having falsely brought an evil name upon her	85
360 - A man incapable of procreation marrying a Jewish Woman	92
361 - Castration of man or beast	92
362 - Appointing a king not born an Israelite	336
363 - A king owning many horses	336
364 - A king taking many wives	336
365 - A king amassing great personal wealth	336