Commandments
According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 6 positive and 2 negative commandments in the parshah.
- Not to derive benefit from any ornamentation of an idol
- Not to take any object from idolatry into our possession, to derive benefit from it
- The precept of blessing the Almighty for the food we receive
- The precept of love for converts to Judaism
- The precept of reverent awe for the Eternal Lord
- The precept of prayer to the Almighty
- The mitzvah of associating with Torah scholars and adhering to them
- That whoever needs to take an oath should swear by the Name of the Eternal Lord
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Famous quotes containing the word commandments:
““Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 22:36-40.
“Not for nothing does it say in the Commandments ‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any image’ ... Every image is a sin.... When you love someone you leave every possibility open to them, and in spite of all the memories of the past you are ready to be surprised, again and again surprised, at how different they are, how various, not a finished image.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“If you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes...then...Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 9:6-7.