Talk:Sefer ha-Chinuch

Merge

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I have added a tag, proposing that Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona be merged to here.

A merge was previously proposed with Aharon HaLevi. This seems inappropriate, as the Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona article is primarily about the Sefer ha-Chinuch, and the view both in 1906 and today is that the Chinuch was not the work of Aharon HaLevi (aka Aaron ben Joseph ha-Levi).

The editors of the 1906 JE therefore created the ha-Levi of Barcelona article for the true author of the Chinuch, presumed to be a different Aaron ha-Levi.

However, at least one strand of present-day scholarship research identifies the true author as the brother of Aharon HaLevi, Pinchas ben Joseph ha-Levi -- so not named Aaron at all.

So it seems to me that the best place (if any) for the content of the Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona article would be here under Sefer ha-Chinuch, which the content definitely relates to, rather than under what may well not have been the author's name at all. Jheald (talk) 19:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose because it's a bad idea since the article itself states that there is some question over the authorship of this work, see Sefer ha-Chinuch#Authorship. There discussions about different rabbis in history who may have authored this work should also be kept separate. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 07:26, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. 07:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)IZAK (talk) 07:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose bad idea, for the same reason as IZAK. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:15, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose There are some cases where the author and his work have become so inextricably linked that it makes sense to merge the two, especially where the work is the author's signature achievement. However, in this case, where the merge proposal makes clear that authorship is ambiguous, combining the two articles would be inappropriate; The claimed authors stand on their own and the work stands on its own, with an appropriate discussion of authorship included linking to the various articles of the claimed authors. Alansohn (talk) 15:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support Apart from his authorship of the Chinnuch, nothing is known about this person. The subject doesn't merit its own article and all its content is about the Chinnuch. There is already an ample article on the very notable Aharon HaLevi. Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona, if he is a different man, is not notable and doesn't deserve his own article. 108.18.138.206 (talk) 21:50, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose for the reason stated in the article, that the authorship is disputed. Yoninah (talk) 00:31, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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I have typed up the 613 Mitzvot of the Sefer Ha-Hinuch in English from the Feldheim version. There is no online English listing of the mitzvot of the Sefer Ha-Hinuch and I think this article could possibly be a great place for it. Here is the list as typed up from the Feldheim translation:

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1. The precept to be "fruitful and multiply" 2. The precept of circumcision 3. Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein 4. The precept of sanctifying the new month 5. The precept of ritually slaying the Pesach offering 6. The precept of eating the flesh of the Pesach offering 7. Not to eat the Pesach offering underroasted or cooked 8. Not to leave over any flesh of the Pesach offering 9. The precept of removing chometz from one's possession 10. The precept of eating matzah on the first night of Pesach 11. That no chametz is to be found in our possession during Pesach 12. Not to eat anything during Pesach that has chametz in it 13. That we should not give a Jewish apostate any part of the Pesach offering to eat 14. That we should not give anything of the Pesach offering to a partial proselyte and resident [a goy that rejects idol worship] to eat 15. Not to carry any flesh of the Pesach offering outside the house 16. Not to break any bone of the Pesach offering 17. That no uncircumcised person should eat of the Pesach offering 18. The precept of sanctifying firstborn animals in the land of Israel 19. Not to eat any chometz on Pesach 20. That no chometz should be seen with us during Pesach 21. That precept of recounting the exodus from Egypt 22. The precept of redeeming a firstborn donkey 23. The precept of beheading a firstborn donkey if it is not redeemed 24. That we should not go out beyond permitted limits on the Sabbath 25. The mitzvah of belief in the existence of the Eternal Lord, be He blessed 26. That we should not believe in any divinity but the Eternal Lord alone 27. Not to make a graven image 28. Not to prostate oneself in idol-worship 29. Not to worship an idol in the way it is customarily worshipped 30. Not to swear in vain 31. The precept of hallowing the Sabbath in words 32. Not to do any work on the Sabbath 33. The precept of honoring one's father and mother 34. Not to murder an innocent man 35. Not to uncover the nakedness of another's wife 36. Not to kidnap any Jewish person 37. Not to bear false witness 38. Not to covet what belongs to another 39. Not to make carved human images, even for ornamentation 40. Not to build an altar of hewn stones 41. Not to stride by steps to the altar 42. The precept of the law of the Hebrew slave 43. The precept of marital designation of the Hebrew maidservant 44. The mitzvah of the redemption of the Hebrew maidservant 45. That one who buys a Hebrew maidservant from her father's hand may not sell her 46. Not to diminish (withhold) from one's wife food, clothing or conjugal due 47. The precept that the court is to execute by strangulation anyone punishable by death 48. Not to strike a father or mother 49. The precept of the laws of fines 50. The precept that the court should execute by the sword [decapitation] one punishable by this death 51. The duty of the court to judge damages by domestic animals 52. Not to eat an ox that was sentenced to death by stoning 53. The obligation of the court to judge damages done by a pit 54. The obligation of the court to judge a thief whether he has incurred a penalty, payment or deserves death 55. The obligation of the court to judge damages done by a domestic animal's eating or trampling 56. The obligation of the court to judge damage by fire 57. The obligation of the court to judge cases involving an unpaid custodian 58. The obligation of the court to judge the case of a plaintiff and a defendant 59. The obligation of the court to judge cases involving a paid custodian or a hirer 60. The obligation of the court to judge cases concerning a borrower of some object 61. The obligation of the court to judge the case of a seducer 62. Not allow a sorcerer to live 63. Not to verbally oppress a convert 64. Not to wrong a convert in matters of property 65. Not to afflict any orphan or widow 66. The mitzvah of lending to the poor 67. That we should not demand payment of a debt from a poor man who has not the means to pay it 68. That we should not lend a hand to either a borrower or a lender for interest in effecting a loan between them 69. Not to curse a judge 70. The prohibition against cursing the name of the Eternal Lord 71. Not to curse a sovereign leader 72. Not to separate the dues from produce in improper order 73. Not to eat of an animal clawed by beasts 74. Not to hear the claim of a litigant when his opponent is not present 75. That a sinner should not give testimony 76. Not to follow a majority of judges in a capital case on the strength of a majority of one 77. That a judge who first argued for the innocence of the accused in a capital case should not then argue for his guilt 78. The precept of following the majority in rendering legal decisions 79. Not to take pity on a poor man in judgement 80. The mitzvah of unloading a burden from another's beast 81. Not to pervert justice in a sinner's trial because he is wicked 82. Not to decide a capital case on the basis of probablity 83. Not to take any bribe 84. The precept of sh'mittah of the land - to leave its produce ownerless in the seventh, sabbatical year 85. The mitzvah of resting on the Sabbath 86. Not to swear by an idol 87. Not to lead Israelites astray into idolatry 88. The precept of chagigah, the celebrations offering, on the pilgrimage festivals 89. That we should not ritually slay the paschal lamb on the 14th of Nissah while there is yet chometz in our possession 90. That we should not let the parts to be burned on the altar for the Pesach offering become impermissble by being left overnight 91. The precept of bringing first fruits 92. Not to cook meat in milk 93. Not to make a covenant with the seven nations that were to be exterpated and also not with any idol-worshipper 94. Not to settle any idol-worshipper in our land 95. The precept of building the holy Temple 96. Not to remove the staves of the ark from it 97. The precept of arranging the showbread and the frankincense 98. The precept of preparing the lamps in the menorah in the Sanctuary 99. The precept that the kohanim should wear their special garments 100. That the breastplate should not come loose from the ephod worn by the kohen gadol 101. Not to tear the me'il (robe) of the kohanim 102. The precept to eat the flesh of the chattas sin-offering and the asham guilt-offering 103. The precept of burning incense 104. Not to burn alien incense or offer up sacrifices on the golden altar 105. The precept of giving half a shekel each year 106. The precept of hollowing rinsing hands and feet when ministering at the Sanctuary 107. The precept of anointing oil to apply to each kohen gadol and king 108. That an outsider (anyone but a kohen gadol or a king assuming his position) should not rub annointing oil on himself 109. Not to make anointing oil according to the Scriptural formula 110. Not to make incense according to the sacred formula 111. Not to eat or drink from an offering to an idol 112. The precept of letting the land rest, lie fallow in the year of sh'mittah 113. Not to eat meat and milk cooked together 114. That the court should not carry out a death penalty on the Sabbath 115. The precept of the sacrifice of the olah (burnt offering) 116. The precept of the minchah meal offering 117. Not to offer yeast or honey on the altar 118. Not to offer up any sacrifice without salt 119. The precept of salting an offering 120. The precept of the offering by the high supreme court if it erred in a ruling 121. The precept of the chattas sin-offering for an individual who unintentionally violated a negative precept over which when done intentionally one incurs kares 122. The precept of giving testimony 123. The precept of an oleh v'yored offering of greater or lesser value 124. Not to separate the head of a fowl brought as a chattas sin-offering 125. Not to put olive oil in the mincha meal offering of an unintentional sinner 126. Not to put frankincense in an unintentional sinner's minchah 127. The precept of adding a fifth of the value in repayment when one has eaten of sanctified food the kohen's hallowed portion or any sacred property or enjoyed its use 128. The precept of asham taluy, an offering for doubtful guilt 129. The precept of asham vaddai, an offering for certain guilt 130. The precept of returning property seized in robbery 131. The precept of lifting off the ash from the altar 132. The precept of kindling the fire on the altar 133. Not to extinguish the fire on the altar 134. The precept of eating the remainders of meal-offerings 135. Not to make the remainders of meal-offerings (minchah) become leavened 136. The precept of the daily meal-offering of the kohen gadol 137. That the meal-offering of a kohen should not be eaten 138. The precept of the procedure of the chattas sin-offering 139. Not to eat the flesh of any chattas whose blood is sprinkled within the Sanctuary 140. The precept of the procedure of the asham guilt-offering 141. The precept of the procedure of the sh'lamim peace-offering 142. Not to let any flesh of a todah thanksgiving-offering be left over past the time for eating it 143. The precept of burning the remnants of the sacred offerings 144. Not to eat piggul (vile meat) of an offering sacrificed with certain forbidden intentions 145. Not to eat the flesh of holy offerings that became defiled 146. The precept of burning the holy flesh that became defiled 147. That we should not eat chelev forbidden animal fat 148. That we should not eat the blood of any beast or fowl 149. That the kohanim should not enter the Sanctuary with hair grown long 150. That the kohanim should not enter the Sanctuary with torn clothing 151. That the kohanim should not go out from the Sanctuary in midst of their holy service 152. That a kohen should not enter the Sanctuary having drunk wine, nor should any judge give a ruling while inebriated 153. The precept of examining the signs of domestic and wild animals which determine if they are kosher 154. Not to eat a non-kosher species of domestic or wild animal 155. The precept of examining the signs of fish which determine if they are kosher 156. Not to eat a non-kosher species of fish 157. Not to eat non-kosher species of fowl 158. The precept of examining the signs of locusts to see if they are kosher 159. The precept of the ritual uncleanness of eight crawling creatures 160. The precept regarding the ritual uncleanness of food 161. The precept regarding ritual uncleanness of animal carcasses 162. Not to eat creatures that swarm on the earth 163. Not to eat the species of minute insects that are engendered in grains and fruits 164. Not to eat of creatures that swarm in the water 165. Not to eat of swarming creatures that come into being from decay 166. The precept regarding the ritual uncleanness of a woman who gives birth 167. That a ritually unclean person should not eat of holy sacrifices 168. The precept of the offering brought by a woman who has given birth 169. The ritual uncleanness of a man with tzaras 170. Not to shave the hair of a nesex infection of head or beard 171. The precept of the practice by a man with tzaras or anyone who can defile others, to leave his hair untrimmed and his clothes torn 172. The precept regarding tzaras in clothing 173. The precept that ritual cleansing from a leporous ailment should be through certain specific ingredients 174. The precept of shaving of a man with tzaras on the 7th day of his ritual purification 175. The precept of ritual immersion in a mikveh for cleansing the defiled 176. The precept of the offering of a man with tzaras when he is cured of his illness 177. The precept regarding the ritual uncleanness of a house contaminated with tzaras 178. The precept regarding the ritual uncleanliness of a person with a venereal discharge, that he is both the subject and cause of defilement 179. The precept of the offering by a person who has suffered a veneral discharge, when he is healed of his discharge 180. The precept concerning the ritual uncleanness of seminal fluid, that is unclean and defiles 181. The precept concerning the ritual uncleanness of a menstruant, that she is herself defiled and is a cause of defilement 182. The precept concerning the ritual uncleanness of a woman with an irregular discharge, that she is defiled and causes defilement 183. The precept of the offering by a woman who has suffered an irregular discharge, when she recovers from her discharge 184. That the kohanim should not enter the Sanctuary at all times but only for the Temple service, and all the more certainly not a non-kohane 185. The precept of the Temple service on the Day of Atonement 186. Not to ritually slay holy offerings outside the Sanctuary forecourt 187. The precept of covering the blood in ritual slaying (wild kosher animals and birds) 188. Not to have pleasure with anyone among all those who are ervah (of the same blood or origin type relations, married women, etc.) 189. Not to uncover the nakedness of one's father 190. Not to uncover the nakedness of one's mother 191. Not to uncover the nakedness of one's father's wife even if she is not his mother (Mother or Step Mother) 192. Not to uncover a sister's nakeness if she is his sister in any way 193. Not to uncover the nakedness of a son's daughter 194. Not to uncover the nakedness of a daughter's daughter 195. Not to uncover a daughter's nakeness 196. Not to uncover the nakedness of a sister on one's father's side, who is the daughter of his father's wife (Paternal Sister) 197. Not to uncover the nakedness of a father's sister (Paternal Aunt) 198. Not to uncover the nakedness of a mother's sister (Maternal Aunt) 199. Not to have carnal relations with one's father's brother (Paternal Uncle) 200. Not to be conjugally intimate with the wife on one's father's brother (Paternal Uncle's Wife) 201. Not to be conjugally intimate with a son's wife 202. Not to be conjugally intimate with a brother's wife 203. Not to be conjugally intimate with both a woman and her daughter 204. Not to uncover the nakedness of both a woman and the daughter of her son 205. Not to uncover the nakedness of both a woman and the daughter of her daughter 206. Not to be conjugally intimate with two sisters while both are living 207. Not to be conjugally intimate with a menstruous woman 208. That we should not give any of our progeny to Molech 209. Not to have carnal connection with any male 210. Not to have carnal connection with any beast 211. That women should not lie carnally with beasts 212. The mitzvah to have yerah for father and mother 213. Not to turn astray after idol-worship, neither in thought nor in word, nor even by watching 214. Not to make an idol, neither for oneself nor for anyone else 215. Not to eat left-over meat of sacrifices after the permitted time 216. The mitzvah of leaving over an end of the field unreaped for the poor 217. Not to reap the very last end of one's field 218. The precept of leaving gleanings of the harvest for the poor 219. Not to gather stalks of grain that fell away during the harvest 220. The precept of leaving an end of a vineyard unreaped for the poor 221. Not to reap the very last end of a vineyard 222. The precept of leaving fallen grapes in the vineyard for the poor 223. Not to gather the fallen grapes in a vineyard 224. Not to steal anything of value 225. Not to deny it when something of value that belongs to another is in our possession 226. Not to swear over a false denial about something of value 227. That we should not swear falsely 228. Not to wrongly retain another's property 229. Not to commit robbery 230. That we should not delay payment of a hired man 231. Not to curse a Jew, whether man or woman 232. Not to make a trusting person stumble by giving him misleading advice 233. Not to pervert justice in a civil judgment 234. Not to honor an eminent person at a trial 235. The precept that a judge should pass judgment with righteousness 236. Not to gossip slanderously 237. Not to stand by idly over the blood of a fellow-human's as it is spilled 238. Not to hate fellow Jews 239. The religious duty to rebuke a Jew who does not conduct himself properly 240. Not to shame a Jew 241. Not to take revenge 242. Not to bear a grudge 243. The precept of love for a Jew 244. Not to mate one beast with another which is not of the same species 245. Not to sow different kinds of seed together anywhere in the land of Israel nor should we graft a tree onto another of a different species 246. Not to eat the first three year's produce of a tree 247. The precept of the fruit of a tree's 4th year 248. Not to eat or drink in the manner of a glutton and guzzler 249. Not to practice divination from auspices or omens 250. Not to conjure 251. Not to round the corners of the head at the temples 252. Not to mar the corners of the beard 253. Not to inscribe a tattoo in our flesh 254. The precept of yirah for the Sanctuary 255. Not to perform the act of an ov (a medium) 256. Not to perform the act of a yidoni (a kind of wizard) 257. The mitzvah of honoring the wise scholars 258. Not to cheat with measures (includes all measures) 259. The precept of making scales, weights and measures correct 260. Not to curse one's father or mother 261. The precept that whoever deserves death by burning is to be burned 262. Not to follow the customs of the nations 263. That an ordinary kohen should not defile himself for any dead person other than the relatives stated clearly in Scripture 264. The precept regarding the defilement of kohanim for their near relatives; included in this is the mitzvah that ever Jew should mourn for the specific six among his relations named in Scripture 265. That a kohen defiled for a day who undergoes ritual immersion to purify himself should not serve at the Sanctuary till the sun sets 266. That a kohen should not marry a wanton (a lewd or lascivious person) 267. That a kohen should not marry a profaned woman 268. That a kohen should not marry a divorced woman 269. The precept of the sanctification of Aaron's descendants 270. That a kohen gadol should not enter the tent of a dead man 271. That a kohen gadol should not defile himself with any ritual uncleanness for a dead man 272. The precept that a kohen gadol should marry a virgin 273. That a kohen gadol should not marry a widow 274. That a kohen gadol should not be conjugally intimate with a widow 275. That a kohen with a blemishing defect should not serve at the Sanctuary 276. That a kohen with a passing temporary blemish should not serve at the Sanctuary 277. That a kohen with a blemishing defect should not enter the holy Temple 278. That a ritually unclean kohen should not serve at the Sanctuary 279. That a ritually unclean kohen should not eat terumah (the kohen's portion from produce) 280. That no non-kohen whatever should eat terumah 281. That neither the permanent worker nor the hired man of a kohen should eat terumah 282. That an uncircumcised person should not eat terumah 283. That a profaned woman should not eat of hallowed food 284. Not to eat tevel produce which is produce that terumah and tithes were not separated 285. That we should not consecreate blemished, defective animals to offer them up on the altar 286. The precept that an animal offering is to be whole without blemish or disfigurement 287. That we should not make a blemishing defect in animals consecrated for holy things 288. That we should not sprinkle the blood of blemished, defective animals on the altar 289. That we should not ritually slay blemished, defective animals for holy offerings 290. That we should not burn the portions for the altar from blemished, defective animals 291. Not to emasculate any creature out of all the animal species 292. Not to offer up a blemished, defective offering received from goyim 293. The precept that an animal offering should be eight days old or more 294. Not to ritually slay an animal and its young in one day 295. Not to do anything through which the Name of Heaven (G-d) will be profaned among people 296. The mitzvah of sanctifying the name of G-d 297. The precept of resting from work on the first day of Pesach 298. Not to do any work on the first day of Pesach 299. The precept of the mussaf additional animal offering all the seven days of Pesach 300. The precept of resting from work on the seventh day of Pesach 301. Not to do any work on the seventh day of Pesach 302. The precept of the offering of the omer (sheaf) of barley on the second day of Pesach 303. Not to eat bread from the new crop of cereal grains before the end of the 16th of Nissan 304. Not to eat parched kernels (out from their shell) from the new crop until the end of that day (Flour Products) 305. Not to eat parched ears (grain on the stalks) from the new crop until the aforementioned time 306. The precept of counting 49 days from the offering of the omer 307. The precept of the minchah meal-offering of new wheat on the day of Shavuos 308. The precept of resting from work on the day of the Shavuos festival 309. Not to do any work on the day of the Shavuos festival 310. The precept of resting from work on Rosh haShanah 311. Not to do any work on the first day of Tishri (Rosh HaShana) 312. The precept of the musaf additional animal offering on Rosh HaShanah 313. The precept of fasting on the 10th of Tishri 314. The precept of the musaf additional offering on the tenth of Tishri 315. Not to do any work on the tenth of Tishri 316. Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur 317. The precept of resting from work on Yom Kippur 318. The precept of resting from work on the first day of Succos 319. Not to do any work on the first day of the Succos festival 320. The precept of the musaf additional offering on each of the seven days of the Succos festival 321. The precept of resting from work on the eighth day of Succos 322. The precept of the musaf additional offering on the eighth day of Succos which is Shmini Atzeres 323. Not to do any work on the eighth day of Succos 324. The precept of taking the lulav 325. The mitzvah of dwelling in the sukkah 326. That we should not work the earth in the 7th sabbatical year 327. That we should not do any work in the 7th sabbatical year to trees either 328. That we shoud not harvest what grows wild in the seventh sabbatical year 329. That we should not gather the fruit of the tree in the seventh sabbatical year in the way that it is gathered every year 330. The precept of counting seven cycles of seven years 331. The precept of sounding the shofar on Yom Kippur of the jubilee year 332. The precept of sanctifying the jubilee year 333. That we should not work the land in the jubilee year 334. That we should not harvest produce that grows wild in a jubilee year 335. Not to gather the fruit of trees in a jubilee year in the way that it is gathered in other years 336. The precept of effecting justice between buyer and seller 337. Not to wrong anyone by cheating in buying and selling 338. Not to oppress a Jew with words 339. That we should not sell a field in the land of Israel permanently 340. The precept of returning land to its original owners in the land of Israel in the jubilee year 341. The precept of redeeming inherited landed property which is within an originally walled city, until the completion of a year from its sale 342. Not to alter the open land around the cities of the Levites or their fields 343. Not to lend at interest to a Jew 344. That we should not have a Hebrew manservant do contemptible work like a Canannite slave 345. That we should not sell a Hebrew manservant at the selling-block like all slaves 346. Not to work a Hebrew manservant at hard labor 347. The precept of keeping a heathen slave permanently 348. Not to allow a non-Jew to work severly a Hebrew manservant who was sold to him 349. That we should not bow down to the ground on a figured stone even in worship to G-d 350. The precept of one who vows a man's value, he gives the value set in the Written Torah 351. That we should not exchange (replace) animals consecrated for holy offerings 352. The precept of one who exchanges an animal consecrated for an offering, for another one, that both should be sacred (Mitzvas Temurah) 353. The precept of one who vows an animal's value, he should give as the kohen values it 354. The precept of one who vows the valuation of a house, that he should give the value the kohen sets on it, with the addition of one-fifth of this value 355. The precept of one who vows the valuation of a field, that he should give according to the value set in the sidrah portion of Scripture 356. Not to change consecrated animals from one offering for which they were consecrated to another 357. The precept of one who vows a cherem on part of his property, it goes to the kohanim 358. That land put by its owner under cherem is not to be sold but rather given to Kohanim 359. That land under cherem is not to be redeemed 360. The precept of the tithe of clean permissible domestic animals to be given every year 361. That the tithe of animals is not to be sold but only eaten in Jerusalem 362. The precept of sending the ritually unclean outside the camp of the shechinah 363. That a ritually unclean person should not enter anywhere in the Sanctuary 364. The precept of confession over a sin 365. The precept of sotah (a straying woman suspected of infidelity), that her husband should bring her to the kohen and he should observe for her the rule of Scripture 366. Not to put oil into the offering of a sotah 367. Not to put frankincense in the offering of a sotah 368. That a nazir should not take wine or any strong drink derived from grapes 369. That a nazir should not eat fresh grapes 370. That a nazir should not eat raisins 371. That a nazir should not eat grape seeds 372. That a nazir should not eat grape skins 373. That a nazir should not shave his hair all his days as a nazir 374. The precept of letting a nazir's hair grow long 375. That a nazir should not enter the tent of a dead person 376. That a nazir should not become defiled by a dead person or by any other uncleanness 377. The precept of shaving a nazir's hair and bringing his offerings 378. The precept of the blessing of the kohanim to be given everyday 379. The precept of carrying the holy ark on the shoulders 380. The precept of Pesach shayni offering on the 14th of Iyar 381. The precept of eating the Pesach shayni offering with matzah and bitter herbs 382. Not to leave anything over of the Pesach shayni offering until the next day 383. To break none of the bones of the Pesach shayni offering 384. The precept of sounding the trumpets at the Sanctuary and in battle 385. The precept of challah (dough set aside for the kohen) 386. The precept of tzitzis on four cornered garments 387. Not to go straying after the thoughts of the heart and the sight of the eyes 388. The precept of guarding the Sanctuary 389. That the kohanim and the Levites should not engage in one another's tasks 390. That an outsider who is not a kohen should not work at the Sanctuary 391. Not to cease the guarding of the Sanctuary 392. The precept of redeeming a firstborn child 393. Not to redeem the firstling of a kosher domestic animal 394. The precept of the Levite's service at the Sanctuary 395. The precept of the First Tithe 396. The obligation of the Levites to give a tithe of the tithe 397. The precept of the red heifer 398. The precept of the ritual uncleanness of the dead 399. The precept of the lustral red heifer water, that it defiles a ritually clean man and purifies only a man defiled by the uncleanness of the dead 400. The precept of the laws of inheritance 401. The precept of the regular olah burnt offerings to be sacrificed every day 402. The precept of the musaf additional offering of Shabbos 403. The precept of the musaf additional offering of Rosh Chodesh 404. The precept of the musaf offering on the day of the Shavuos festival 405. The precept of sounding the shofar on Rosh HaShana 406. The precept of the law of nullifying vows 407. That we should not break our word in vows that we make 408. The religious duty of the Israelites to give the Levites cities to dwell in, which should give refuge to the unintentional manslayer 409. Not to execute a guilty person who deserves death, before he stands trial 410. The religious duty of the court to impel a person who has killed someone unintentionally to go to a city of refuge and the duty of the manslayer to go there 411. That a witness who testifies in a trial for a capital crime should not speak in judgment 412. To take no ransom to save a killer from the death he deserves 413. To take no ransom from someone sentenced to banishment to a city of refuge in order to free him from the banishment 414. Not to appoint any man as judge who is not learned in the laws of the Torah, even though he is learned in other wisdoms 415. That a judge presiding at a trial should not fear any evil man 416. Not to desire what belongs to our fellow-Israelites 417. The precept of the oneness of G-d 418. The precept of love for G-d 419. The precept of Torah study 420. The mitzvah of reciting the Sh'ma every morning and evening 421. The precept of the t'fillin of the hand 422. The precept of the t'fillin of the head 423. The precept of the mezuzah on the doorpost 424. Not to test a true prophet unduly 425. The precept of killing out the seven nations 426. To show no mercy to idol-worshippers 427. To form no marital bonds with idol-worshippers 428. Not to derive benefit from any ornament for an idol 429. Not to attach any object whatsoever from idolatry to our possessions and our ownership, to derive benefit from it 430. The precept of blessing G-d for food 431. The precept of love for a convert to Judaism 432. The precept of having yirah of G-d 433. The precept of prayer 434. The mitzvah of associating with and adhering to Torah scholars 435. The precept that whoever must take an oath should swear by the name of G-d 436. The precept to destroy an idol and all objects in its service 437. Not to erase holy writings or written names of G-d, blessed be He (this also applies to houses of sacred worship) 438. The religious obligation to present all obligatory or voluntary offerings which a man is to bring, at the first pilgrimage festival that comes along 439. Not to bring sacrifices as burnt holy offerings outside the Sanctuary 440. The precept to bring up all holy sacrifice burnt offerings at the Sanctuary and not anywhere outside it 441. The precept to redeem animals consecrated for offerings which have become blemished, defective; and afterward they are permitted to be eaten 442. Not to eat the Second Tithe of grain outside Jerusalem 443. Not to consume the Second Tithe of wine outside Jerusalem 444. Not to consume the Second Tithe of oil outside Jersalem 445. Not to eat an unblemished firstborn animal outside Jerusalem 446. Not to eat the flesh of the chattas sin-offering and asham guilt-offering beyond the boundaries of the Sanctuary precincts - not even the kohanim 447. Not to eat the flesh of the olah burnt-offering 448. Not to eat the flesh of offerings of lesser holiness before the sprinking of their blood on the altar 449. That the kohanim should not eat bikkurim before they are set down before the Lord in the Sanctuary forecourt 450. Not to neglect the Levites by failing to give them their gifts and make them happy on the pilgrimage festivals 451. The precept of shechitah 452. Not to eat a limb or part taken from a living animal 453. The precept to attend to bringing an animal offering from outside the land of Israel to the Sanctuary 454. Not to add to the precepts of the Torah 455. Not to diminish from the precepts of the Torah 456. To pay no heed to anyone prophesizing in the name of an idol 457. To have no affection for an enticer to idolatry 458. Not to relinquish hatred for an enticer to idolatry 459. Not to rescue an enticer to idol-worship from the death penalty 460. That someone enticed to idolatry should not speak in favor of the enticer 461. That a person enticed to idol-worship should not be silent and refrain from speaking against the enticer 462. Not to entice an Israelite toward idol-worship 463. The precept of examining witnesses thoroughly 464. The precept of burning a city gone astray into idolatry with all it contains 465. Not to rebuild a city gone astray into idolatry to its former condition 466. Not to derive any benefit from the wealth of a city gone astray into idolatry 467. Not to gash oneself as idol-worshippers do 468. Not to cause baldness (tearing the hair in grief) over the dead 469. Not to eat holy offerings that became disqualified 470. The religious duty of examining the signs of a fowl if it may be eaten 471. Not to eat unclean non-kosher locusts, nor any winged insects 472. Not to eat the flesh of any domestic or wild beasts, or fowl, that died of themselves 473. The precept of the Second Tithe 474. The precept of the tithe for the poor, given in place of Second Tithe in the third year 475. Not to demand payment of a loan over which the seventh year has passed 476. The precept of exacting a loan rigorously from a heathen 477. The precept of relinquishing money owed in the seventh year 478. Not to refrain hard-heartedly from sustaining a poor man and giving him what he needs 479. The mitzvah of charity 480. That we should not refrain from lending money to the poor on account of the arrival of shmittah 481. Not to send away a Hebrew bondservant, when he goes free, empty-handed 482. The precept of giving a bonus to a Hebrew bondservant at his discharge 483. To do no work with animals consecrated for offerings 484. Not to shear animals consecrated for offerings 485. Not to eat chametz after midday on the day before Pesach 486. Not to leave over till the third day any flesh of the festival offering korban chagigah that we sacrifice on the fourteenth day of Nissan 487. Not to offer up a Pesach offering on the provisional altar of an individual 488. The precept to rejoice on the pilgrimage festivals 489. The precept to appear on the pilgrimage festivals at the Temple 490. Not to go up to Jerusalem for a pilgrimage festival without provision for an offering, that we would offer up there 491. The precept of appointing judges and officers in every single community in Jewry 492. Not to plant any tree in the Sanctuary 493. Not to erect any idolatrous type of pillar 494. Not to present as an offering an animal with a passing temporary blemishing defect 495. The religious duty to hearken to every great beis din that will arise to the Israelites in every period 496. Not to disobey the word of the great beis din that arise for the Israelites 497. The precept of appointing a king over us 498. Not to appoint anyone king over Israel except a native Israelite 499. That the king should not amass horses beyond his needs 500. Not to ever dwell in the land of Egypt 501. That the king should not take himself an unduly large number of wives 502. That the king should not amass gold and silver inordinately, but only what he finds necessary 503. The religious duty of the king to write one Torah scroll more than the one that the rest of the Israelites are required to write 504. That the tribe of Levi should have no inheritance of land in the land of Israel 505. That the tribe of Levi should take no share of the booty during the conquest of the land 506. The precept of giving the shoulder, two cheeks and stomach of an offering to the kohen 507. The religious duty of separating the great terumah (the kohen's portion from produce) 508. The precept of the first of the fleece, that it should be given to the kohen (Rashis HaGeiz) 509. The precept that the kohanim should work at the Sanctuary in watches and at festival times they should work in unison all together 510. Not to practice divination 511. Not to practice sorcery (Kishuf) 512. Not to employ charms 513. Not to consult an ov (a kind of medium) 514. Not to consult a yidoni (a kind of wizard) 515. Not to seek contact with the dead (Doresh El HaMeisim) 516. The precept to heed every single prophet who will be in every generation, provided he does not add anything to or take anything away from the precepts of the Torah 517. Not to prophesize falsely 518. Not to prophesize in the name of an idol 519. That we should not refrain from putting a false prophet to death and not be afraid of him 520. The precept to prepare six cities of refuge 521. To have no mercy on a person who inflicts mortal injury in the ensuing capital trial 522. Not to overreach one's boundary to falsely claim another's property (Hasagas Gvul) 523. Not to pass judgment on the word of one witness 524. The precept to do to false scheming witnesses as they intended to do to their victim through their testimony 525. Not to quail in fear before an enemy in battle 526. The precept to anoint a kohen for war (Mashuach Milchama) 527. The precept to act in a voluntary war according to the rules of Scripture 528. To let no one in the seven nations that originally inhabited the Land of Israel stay alive 529. Not to destroy fruit-bearing trees in setting siege; and so is every kind of purposeless destruction included in this ban (Baal Tashchis) 530. The precept of beheading the heifer in a riverbed 531. Not to plow or sow in the coursing riverbed where the heifer's neck was broken 532. The precept of the law of a beautiful woman taken captive in war (Yefas Toar) 533. Not to sell a beautiful women taken captive in war 534. Not to make a beautiful captive woman work as a slave after one has been conjugally intimate with her 535. The precept of the law of hanging someone after his execution when it is required (Mitzvas Teliyah) 536. That someone hung should not be left overnight on the gallows; nor should any dead man be left overnight in his house, unless it is for his honor 537. The precept of burial the same day, speedily for anyone put to death by court sentence and so for every deceased person 538. The religious duty of returning something lost to its owner 539. Not to turn a blind eye to a lost object 540. Not to leave a fellow's beast lying under its burden 541. That precept of lifting up a load for an Israelite 542. That a woman should not wear a man's garb 543. That a man should not wear a woman's garb 544. Not to take the mother-bird with the young in a nest 545. The precept of sending away the mother-bird from the nest 546. The religious duty of building a fence around a roof 547. Not to leave a stumbling-block (keep a dangerous object) about 548. Not to sow mixed kinds of seeds in a vineyard in the land of Israel, by the Torah's law 549. Not to eat the produce of mixed kinds of seeds grown in a vineyard in the land of Israel 550. Not to do work with two kinds of animals together 551. Not to wear cloth of wool and linen 552. The precept of the marriage rite in taking a wife (Kiddushin) 553. The precept that the wife of one who spreads an evil report that she was immoral is to remain with him permanently (Motzi Shame Ra) 554. That one who spreads an evil report that she was immoral is not to divorce his wife 555. The duty of the court to have anyone who merits stoning stoned to death 556. Not to punish anyone compelled to transgress 557. The duty of a rapist to take his victim for a wife 558. That a rapist is not ever to divorce his victim 559. That an emasculated man (Saris) is not to take any Israelite woman in marriage 560. That a bastard from an adulterous or incestuous union should not marry any native daughter of Israel 561. That no Ammonite or Moabite may marry a daughter of Israel 562. Not to ever offer peace to Ammon or Moab before a war 563. Not to exclude the progeny of Esau from intermarrying with the progeny of Israel, after they have been converted to Judaism, past two generations 564. To exclude an Egyptian only up to the third generation, but not including the third generation 565. That a ritually unclean person should not enter the camp of the Levites (the Temple Mount) 566. The precept to prepare a place of easement in a camp 567. The precept to prepare a boring-stick (spade) for easement in a camp 568. Not to return a slave who fled from his master, from outside the land to the land of Israel 569. Not to oppress this slave who flees from his master, from outside the land to the land of Israel 570. That there should be no "harlot" in Jewry (no woman conjugally intimate out of wedlock) (Issur Kidaisha) 571. Not to bring the wage of a harlot or the exchange price of a dog as an offering at the Sanctuary 572. Not to borrow at interest from an Israelite 573. The precept of lending to a heathen at interest if he needs to borrow money, which is not the case with an Israelite 574. Not to be overly tardy with vowed and voluntary offerings 575. The religious duty of fulfilling whatever goes out from one's lips as a vow 576. The duty that lies upon us to allow a hired worker to eat certain things (produce) while he is under hire to work on it 577. That a hired man should not raise a sickle to his fellow-man's employer's standing grain to save it for himself 578. That a hired man should not eat from his employer's crops at the time of his actual work 579. The precept that one who wants to divorce his wife should do so with a proper document 580. That a divorced man should not take back his ex-wife after she has been wed (and again divorced or widowed) 581. That a bridegroom is not to be taken out of his house for any lengthy purpose the entire first year of his marriage. 582. The precept that a bridegroom should rejoice with his wife the first year of their marriage 583. Not to take a pledge (pawn) any objects with which sustaining food is prepared 584. Not to pluck out signs of a tzaras infection 585. That a private individual is not to take an object in pledge from a debtor by force 586. Not to withhold a pledged (pawned) object from its owner at the time he needs it 587. The religious duty of returning a pledged object to its owner at the time he needs it 588. The precept of giving a hired man his pay on the same day when he has earned it 589. That a near relation of a person involved in a trial should not give testimony 590. Not to pervert justice in regard to a convert or an orphan 591. Not to take anything in pledge from a widow 592. The precept of leaving forgotten sheaves on the field for the poor 593. Not to take a forgotten sheaf of grain or forgotten fruit from trees 594. The precept of flogging for the wicked 595. Not to add to the flogging due someone who merits flogging; included in this is the injunction that we should not strike any Jew 596. Not to muzzle a domestic animal during its work 597. That a yevamah (childless widow) should not marry anyone other than the yavam (her husband's brother) 598. The precept of the levirate marriage 599. The precept of chalitzah to release a childless widow from the obligation of leverate marriage 600. The religious duty to save a person pursued by a killer by attacking him 601. To have no mercy on a pursuer with intent to kill 602. That we should not keep deficient scales or weights with us, even if we will not use them in trading 603. The religious duty to remember what Amalek did to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt 604. The precept to eradicate the progeny of Amalek 605. That we should not forget the deed of Amalek that he wrought our forefathers when they came out of Egypt 606. The precept of the recital over bikkurim 607. The precept of the avowal over the tithes 608. Not to eat the Second Tithe while in aninus grief over the death of a close kin 609. Not to eat the Second Tithe in ritual uncleanness 610. Not to spend the money for which Second Tithe was exchanged on any things other than food or drink 611. The precept to emulate the good and right ways of G-d 612. The precept to assemble the entire people to hear the Torah read directly after the seventh year 613. The religious duty for every Jew to write a Torah scroll for himself

— Preceding unsigned comment added by GoodJBoy (talk • contribs) 12:23, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Who is in favor of adding the listing of the mitzvos in the Sefer Ha-Hinuch to this article? Who is in favor of adding the above listing cited from the Feldheim translation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GoodJBoy (talk • contribs) 12:37, 30 August 2017 (UTC) GoodJBoy (talk) 13:45, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

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Request Edit - Public Domain English Text

Sefaria recently undertook a translation of Sefer Ha-Chinuch into English, and the resulting translation is released with a CC-BY license. They also have the full Hebrew text, in parallel.

I believe that a link to this would fall under section 2 of WP:ELYES.

I have a COI (I work for Sefaria), and have discussed it on WikiProject:Judaism. Similar requests have been approved, and it seems there's consensus on this.

Link should probably be to Sefer ha-Chinuch - English translation and original Hebrew.

LevEliezer (talk) 03:50, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

 Done  Spintendo  04:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Request Revert

There's an edit to this page that replaced a crop of decent outlinks with a link to a Feldheim buy page and a link to the OU. Diff of change This seems like it needs to be reverted, at least the link to the buy page. I have a COI on this - I work for Sefaria, where one of the old links pointed. Spintendo (talk · contribs) did the original edit for that external link. LevEliezer (talk)

Reply 1-MAR-2019

  Reverted to status quo ante    Spintendo  23:24, 1 March 2019 (UTC)