The 248 Positive Commandments

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The 248 Positive Commandments
Mitzvah	Lesson #
1 - Believing in G-d	5
2 - Unity of G-d	5
3 - Loving G-d	6
4 - Fearing G-d	6
5 - Worshipping G-d	21,22,23,24,25
6 - Cleaving to G-d	8
7 - Taking an oath by G-d's Name	108
8 - Walking in G-d's ways	8
9 - Sanctifying G-d's Name	6
10 - Reading the Shema twice daily	20,21
11 - Studying and teaching Torah	11
12 - Wearing Tefillin of the head	26
13 - Wearing Tefillin of the hand	27
14 - To make Tzitzis	30
15 - To affix a Mezuzah	28
16 - Hakhel during Sukkos	183
17 - A king to write a Torah	29
18 - Every person must write a Torah	28
19 - Grace after Meals	31,32,33,34
20 - To build a Sanctuary for G-d	147
21 - Revering the Bais HaMikdash	149
22 - Guarding the Mikdash	150
23 - Levitical services in the Mikdash	152
24 - Ablutions of the Priests	155
25 - Kindling the lamps by the Priests	166
26 - Priests blessing Israel	26
27 - The Showbread	166
28 - Burning the Incense	166
29 - The perpetual fire on the Altar	165
30 - Removing the ashes from the Altar	165
31 - Removing the unclean persons from the camp	154
32 - Honoring the Priests	152
33 - The Priestly Garments	153
34 - The Priests bearing the Ark on their shoulders	151
35 - The Oil of Anointment	150
36 - Priests ministering in watches	152
37 - Priests defiling themselves for deceased relatives	331
38 - The High Priest marrying only a virgin	93
39 - The daily Burnt-Offerings	165
40 - The High Priest's daily Meal-Offering	166
41 - The Shabbos Additional Offering	166
42 - The New Moon Additional Offering	166
43 - The Pesach Additional Offering	167
44 - The Meal-Offering of the Omer	167
45 - The Shavuos Additional Offering	167
46 - The bringing of the Two Loaves on Shavuos	167
47 - The Rosh HaShanah Additional Offering	167
48 - The Yom Kippur Additional Offering	167
49 - The Service of Yom Kippur	175,176
50 - The Sukkos Offering	167
51 - The Shemini Atzeres Additional Offering	167
52 - The three annual pilgrimages	182
53 - Appearing before the L-rd during the Festivals	182
54 - Rejoicing on the Festivals	183
55 - Slaughtering the Pesach Offering	179
56 - Eating the Pesach-Offering	180
57 - Slaughtering the Pesach Sheni-Offering	180
58 - Eating the Pesach Sheni-Offering	180
59 - Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary	66,67,68
60 - Minimum age of cattle to be offered	158
61 - Offering only unblemished sacrifices	156
62 - Salt being brought with every offering	158
63 - The Burnt-Offering	159
64 - The Sin-Offering	160
65 - The Guilt-Offering	160
66 - The Peace-Offering	162
67 - The Meal-Offering	162
68 - Offering of a Court that has erred	191
69 - The Fixed Sin-Offering	186
70 - The Suspensive Guilt-Offering	187,188
71 - The Unconditional Guilt-Offering	189
72 - The Offering of Higher or Lower Value	190
73 - Making confession	17,18,19,20
74 - Offering brought by a zav	192
75 - Offering brought by a zavah	191
76 - The offering of a woman after childbirth	191
77 - Offering brought by a leper	192
78 - The tithe of cattle	185
79 - Sanctifying the first-born	183
80 - Redeeming the first-born	142
81 - Redeeming the firstling of a donkey	142
82 - Breaking the neck of the firstling of a donkey	143
83 - Bringing due offerings on the first festival	163
84 - All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary	164
85 - Bringing all offerings due from outside Eretz Yisrael to the Sanctuary	164
86 - Redeeming blemished offerings	157
87 - Holiness of substituted offering	193
88 - The Priests eating the residue of the Meal Offerings	163
89 - The Priests eating the meat of Consecrated Offerings	161
90 - To burn consecrated Offerings that have become unclean	174
91 - To burn the remnant of Consecrated Offerings	173
92 - The Nazir letting his hair grow	113
93 - Nazirite obligations on completion of vow	116
94 - All oral commitments to be fulfilled	109,110
95 - Revocation of vows	112,113
96 - Defilement through carcasses of animals	217,218,237
97 - Defilement through the carcasses of eight creeping creatures	219,220
98 - Defilement of food and drink	226,227,228,229
99 - The uncleanliness of a menstruant	213,233
100 - The uncleanliness of a woman after childbirth	214,234
101 - The uncleanliness of a leper	207,232
102 - Garments contaminated by leprosy	212
103 - A leprous house	212
104 - The uncleanliness of a zav	216,217,236
105 - The uncleanliness of semen	221,222,223
106 - The uncleanliness of a zavah	215,235
107 - Uncleanness of a corpse	194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,230
108 - Law of the water of sprinkling	205,206,207,231
109 - Immersing in a ritual bath	238,239,240,241,242
110 - Cleansing from leprosy	210
111 - A leper must shave his head	211
112 - The leper to be made distinguishable	209
113 - The ashes of the Red Heifer	202,203,204
114 - Valuation of a person	116
115 - Valuation of beasts	117
116 - Valuation of houses	117
117 - Valuation of fields	117
118 - Restitution for sacrilege	176
119 - The fruits of fourth-year planting	138
120 - To leave Peah for the poor	122
121 - To leave gleanings for the poor	123
122 - To leave the forgotten sheaf for the poor	124
123 - To leave defective grape-clusters for the poor	123
124 - To leave grape-gleanings for the poor	124
125 - To bring First-fruits to the Sanctuary	139
126 - To set aside the great heave-offering	126
127 - To set aside the first tithe	131,132,133,134,135
128 - To set aside the second tithe	135
129 - The Levites' tithe for the Priest	126
130 - To set aside the poor man's tithe in the third and sixth year	125
131 - The avowal of the Tithe	139
132 - Recital on bringing the first-fruits	140
133 - To set aside the challah for the Priest	141
134 - Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year	144
135 - The land resting during the Sabbatical year	143
136 - Sanctifying the Jubilee year	145
137 - Blowing the Shofar in the Jubilee year	145
138 - Reversion of land in the Jubilee year	146
139 - Redemption of property in a walled city	146
140 - Counting the years to the Jubilee	145
141 - Canceling monetary claims in the Sabbatical year	144
142 - Exacting debts from idolaters	296
143 - The Priest's due in the slaughter of every clean animal	141
144 - The first of the fleece to be given to the Priest	141
145 - Devoted things to G-d and the Priest	118
146 - Slaughtering animals before eating them	100
147 - Covering the blood of slain birds and animals	102
148 - Releasing the mother before taking its nest	104
149 - Searching for the prescribed tokens of cleanliness in cattle and animals	95
150 - Searching for the prescribed tokens of cleanliness in birds	95
151 - Searching for the prescribed tokens of cleanliness in grasshoppers	95
152 - Searching for the prescribed tokens of cleanliness in fishes	95
153 - Determining the New Moon	60,61,62,63,64,65,66
154 - Resting on Shabbos	37,38
155 - Proclaiming the sanctity of the Shabbos	45,46,47
156 - Removal of Chometz on Pesach	54
157 - Recounting the Exodus from Egypt on the first night of Pesach	56
158 - Eating Matzah on the first night of Pesach	55
159 - Resting on the first day of Pesach	51
160 - Resting on the seventh day of Pesach	51
161 - Counting the Omer	168
162 - Resting on Shavuos	52
163 - Resting on Rosh HaShanah	52
164 - Fasting on Yom Kippur	50
165 - Resting on Yom Kippur	50
166 - Resting on the first day of Sukkos	53
167 - Resting on Shemini Atzeres	53
168 - Dwelling in a Sukkah for seven days	57
169 - Taking a Lulav on Sukkos	58
170 - Hearing the Shofar on Rosh HaShanah	56
171 - Giving a half shekel annually	59,60
172 - Heeding the Prophets	7
173 - Appointing a king	336
174 - Obeying the Great Court	329
175 - Abiding by majority decision	313
176 - Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court	313
177 - Treating litigants equally before the law	319
178 - Testifying in Court	321
179 - Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses	322
180 - Condemning witnesses who testify falsely	328
181 - Eglah Arufah	261
182 - Establishing Six Cities of Refuge	260
183 - Assigning cities to the Levi'im	147
184 - Building fences on the roof; removing sources of danger from our habitations	261
185 - Destroying all idol-worship	15
186 - The law of the Apostate City	13
187 - The law of the Seven Nations	337
188 - The extinction of the seed of Amalek	337
189 - Remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek	337
190 - The law of non-obligatory war	338
191 - Appointing a Priest to speak to the people when going to war	339
192 - Preparing a place beyond the camp	338
193 - Including a digging tool among war implements	338
194 - A robber to restore the stolen article	254
195 - To give charity	125
196 - Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bond-man on his freedom	286
197 - Lending money to the poor	295
198 - Lending money to the heathen with interest	303
199 - Restoring a pledge to a needy owner	298
200 - Paying wages on time	289
201 - An employee to be allowed to eat of the produce among which he is working	290
202 - Unloading a tired animal	262
203 - Assisting the owner in loading his burden	262
204 - Returning lost property to its owner	255
205 - Rebuking the sinner	9
206 - Loving our fellow Jew	8
207 - Loving the convert	9
208 - The law of weights and measures	248
209 - Honoring scholars	12
210 - Honoring parents	330
211 - Fearing parents	330
212 - To be fruitful and multiply	76,77
213 - The law of marriage	69,70
214 - The bridegroom devoting himself to his wife for one year	339
215 - Circumcising one's son	34,35
216 - The law of levirate marriage	82
217 - The law of Chalitzah	83
218 - A violator must marry the maiden whom he has violated	85
219 - The law of the defamer of his bride	85
220 - The law of the seducer	85
221 - The law of the captive woman	339
222 - The law of divorce	78,79
223 - The law of a suspected adulteress	86
224 - Whipping transgressors of certain Commandments	316
225 - The law of unintentional man-slaughter	259
226 - Transgressors of certain Commandments to be beheaded	315
227 - Transgressors of certain Commandments to be strangled	315
228 - Transgressors of certain Commandments to be burned	314
229 - Transgressors of certain Commandments to be stoned	314
230 - Transgressors of certain Commandments to be hanged after execution	315
231 - Burial on the day of execution	315
232 - The law of a Hebrew bondman	285
233 - A Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son	286
234 - Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid	286
235 - The law of a Canaanite bondman	287
236 - Penalty of inflicting injury	256,257,258,277,278,279,280
237 - The law of injuries caused by an ox	242
238 - The law of injuries caused by a pit	244
239 - The law of theft	247
240 - The law of damage caused by a beast	243
241 - The law of damage by a fire	245,246
242 - The law of an unpaid bailee	294
243 - The law of a paid bailee	288
244 - The law of a borrower	292,293
245 - The law of buying and selling	263,264,273,274,275,276,281,282,283,284
246 - The law of litigants	304,305,306,307,308,309
247 - Saving the life of the pursued	260
248 - The law of inheritance	309,310,311,312