613 Mitzvot (תרי״ג מצוות)

Welcome to the Mussar Center's List of the 613 Positive and Negative Mitzvot as numbered by the Rambam/Maimonides, Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon.

This list is also available as a printable PDF. See also the longer topical listing of the 613 Commandments.

248 Positive Mitzvot (רמ״ח מצוות עשה)

1: Believing in God

2: Unity of God

3: Loving God

4: Fearing God

5: Worshiping God

6: Cleaving to God

7: Taking an oath by God's Name

8: Walking in God's ways

9: Sanctifying God's Name

10: Reading the Shema twice daily

11: Studying and teaching Torah

12: Wearing Tefillin of the head

13: Wearing Tefillin of the hand

14: To make Tzitzit

15: To affix a Mezuzah

16: Hakhel during Sukkot

17: A king should write a Torah

18: Everyone should write a Torah

19: Grace after meals

20: Building a Sanctuary for God

21: Revering the Beit Hamikdash

22: Guarding the Mikdash

23: Levitical services in the Mikdash

24: Ablutions of the Kohanim

25: Kindling the lamps by the Kohanim

26: Kohanim blessing Israel

27: The Showbread

28: Burning the Incense

29: The perpetual fire on the Altar

30: Removing the ashes from the Altar

31: Removing tamei persons from the camp

32: Honoring the Kohanim

33: The Priestly garments

34: Kohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders

35: The oil of the Anointment

36: Kohanim ministering in watches

37: Kohanim defiling themselves for deceased relatives

38: Kohen Gadol should only marry a virgin

39: Daily Burnt Offerings

40: Kohen Gadol's daily Meal Offering

41: The Shabbat Additional Offering

42: The New Moon Additional Offering

43: The Pesach Additional Offering

44: The Meal Offering of the Omer

45: The Shavuot Additional Offering

46: Bringing Two Loaves on Shavuot

47: The Rosh Hashana Additional Offering

48: The Yom Kippur Additional Offering

49: The Service of Yom Kippur

50: The Sukkot Offering

51: The Shemini Atzeret Additional Offering

52: The three annual pilgrimages

53: Appearing before Hashem during the Festivals

54: Rejoicing on the Festivals

55: Slaughtering the Pesach Offering

56: Eating the Pesach Offering

57: Slaughtering the Pesach Sheini Offering

58: Eating the Pesach Sheini Offering

59: Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary

60: Minimum age of cattle to be offered

61: Offering only unblemished sacrifices

62: Bringing salt with every offering

63: The Burnt-Offering

64: The Sin-Offering

65: The Guilt-Offering

66: The Peace-Offering

67: The Meal-Offering

68: Offerings of a Court that has erred

69: The Fixed Sin-Offering

70: The Suspensive Guilt-Offering

71: The Unconditional Guilt-Offering

72: The Offering of a Higher or Lower Value

73: Making confession

74: Offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)

75: Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)

76: Offering of a woman after childbirth

77: Offering brought by a leper

78: Tithe of Cattle

79: Sanctifying the First-born

80: Redeeming the First-born

81: Redeeming the firstling of a donkey

82: Breaking the neck of the firstling of a donkey

83: Bringing due offerings on the first festival

84: All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary

85: Bring all offerings due from outside Eretz Yisrael to Sanctuary

86: Redeeming blemished offerings

87: Holiness of substituted offerings

88: Kohanim eat the residue of the Meal Offerings

89: Kohanim eat the meat of the Consecrated Offerings

90: To burn Consecrated Offerings that have become tamei

91: To burn the remnant of the Consecrated Offerings

92: The Nazir letting his hair grow

93: Nazirite obligations on completion of vow

94: All oral submissions to be fulfilled

95: Revocation of vows

96: Defilement through carcasses of animals

97: Defilement through carcasses of eight creeping creatures

98: Defilement of food and drink

99: Tumah of a menstruant

100: Tumah of a woman after childbirth

101: Tumah of a leper

102: Garments contaminated by leprosy

103: A leprous house

104: Tumah of a zav (man with a discharge)

105: Tumah of semen

106: Tumah of a zavah (woman with a discharge)

107: Tumah of a corpse

108: The law of the water of sprinkling

109: Immersing in a mikveh

110: Cleansing from Leprosy

111: A leper must shave his head

112: The leper must be made distinguishable

113: Ashes of the Red Heifer

114: Valuation of a person

115: Valuation of beasts

116: Valuation of houses

117: Valuation of fields

118: Restitution for Sacrilege

119: The fruits of the fourth-year planting

120: To leave the corners (peah) for the poor

121: To leave gleanings for the poor

122: To leave the forgotten sheaf for the poor

123: To leave defective grape clusters for the poor

124: To leave grape gleanings for the poor

125: To bring First-fruits to the Sanctuary

126: To set aside the great Heave-offering

127: To set aside the first tithe

128: To set aside the second tithe

129: The Levites' tithe for the Kohanim

130: To set aside the poor-man's tithe in the third and sixth year

131: The avowal of the tithe

132: Recital on bringing the First-fruits

133: To set aside the Challah for the Kohen

134: Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year

135: Resting the land on the Sabbatical year

136: Sanctifying the Jubilee year

137: Blowing the Shofar in the Jubilee year

138: Reversion of the land in the Jubilee year

139: Redemption of property in a walled city

140: Counting the years till the Jubilee year

141: Cancelling monetary claims in the Sabbatical year

142: Exacting debts from idolators

143: The Kohen's due in the slaughter of every clean animal

144: The first of the fleece to be given to the Kohen

145: Devoted thing to God and the Kohen

146: Slaughtering animals before eating them

147: Covering the blood of slain birds and animals

148: Releasing the mother before taking the nest

149: Searching for the prescribed signs in cattle and animals

150: Searching for the prescribed signs in birds

151: Searching for the prescribed signs in grasshoppers

152: Searching for the prescribed signs in fishes

153: Determining the New Moon

154: Resting on Shabbat

155: proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbat

156: Removal of chometz on Pesach

157: Recounting Exodus from Egypt on first night of Pesach

158: Eating Matzah on the first night of Pesach

159: Resting on the first day of Pesach

160: Resting on the seventh day of Pesach

161: Counting the Omer

162: Resting on Shavuos

163: Resting on Rosh Hashana

164: Fasting on Yom Kippur

165: Resting on Yom Kippur

166: Resting on the first day of Sukkot

167: Resting on Shemini Atzeret

168: Dwelling in a Sukkah for seven days

169: Taking a Lulav on Sukkot

170: Hearing a Shofar on Rosh Hashana

171: Giving half a shekel annually

172: Heeding the Prophets

173: Appointing a King

174: Obeying the Great Court

175: Abiding by a majority decision

176: Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court

177: Treating litigants equally before the law

178: Testifying in Court

179: Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses

180: Condemning witnesses who testify falsely

181: Eglah Arufah

182: Establishing Six Cities of Refuge

183: Assigning cities to the Levi'im

184: Building fences on roof

184: Removing sources of danger from our dwellings

185: Destroying all idol-worship

186: The law of the apostate city

187: The law of the Seven Nations

188: The extinction of the seed of Amalek

189: Remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek

190: The law of the non-obligatory war

191: Appointomg a Kohen to speak to the people going to war

191: Sending back any man unfit for battle

192: Preparing a place beyond the camp

193: Including a digging tool among war implements

194: A robber to restore the stolen article

195: To give charity

196: Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bondman on his freedom

197: Lending money to the poor

198: Lending money to the heathen with interest

199: Restoring a pledge to a needy owner

200: Paying wages on time

201: An employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in

202: Unloading a tired animal

203: Assisting the owner in loading his burden

204: Returning lost property to its owner

205: Rebuking the sinner

206: Loving our Fellow Jew

207: Loving the convert

208: The law of weights and measures

209: Honoring scholars

210: Honoring parents

211: Fearing parents

212: Being fruitful and multiplying

213: The law of marriage

214: Bridegroom devotes himself to his wife for one year

215: Circumcising one's son

216: Law of the Levirite Marriage

217: Law of Chalitzah

218: A violator must marry the maiden he has violated

219: The law of the defamer of his bride

220: The law of the seducer

221: The law of the captive woman

222: The law of divorce

223: The law of a suspected adultress

224: Whipping transgressors of certain commandments

225: The law of unintentional manslaughter

226: Beheading transgressors of certain commandments

227: Strangling transgressors of certain commandments

228: Burning transgressors of certain commandments

229: Stoning transgressors of certain commandments

230: Hanging after execution, transgressors of certain commandments

231: Burial on the day of execution

232: The law of the Hebrew bondman

233: Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son

234: Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid

235: The law of a Canaanite bondman

236: Penalty of inflicting injury

237: The law of injuries caused by an ox

238: The law of injuries caused by an pit

239: The law of theft

240: The law of damage caused by a beast

241: The law of damage caused by a fire

242: The law of an unpaid bailee

243: The law of a paid bailee

244: The law of a borrower

245: The law of buying and selling

246: The law of litigants

247: Saving the life of the pursued

248: The law of inheritance

365 Negative Mitzvot (שס״ה מצוות לא תעשה)

1: Not believing in any other God

2: Not to make images for the purpose of worship

3: Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship

4: Not to make figures of human beings

5: Not to bow down to an idol

6: Not to worship idols

7: Not to hand over any children to Molech

8: Not to practice sorcery of the ov

9: Not to practice sorcery of the yidoni

10: Not to study idolatrous practices