Tzav - Commandments

Commandments

According Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 9 positive and 9 negative commandments in the parashah:

To remove the ashes from the altar every day
To light a fire on the altar every day
Not to extinguish this fire
The priests must eat the remains of the meal offerings.
Not to bake a meal offering as leavened bread
The High Priest must bring a meal offering every day.
Not to eat the meal offering of the High Priest
To carry out the procedure of the sin offering
Not to eat the meat of the inner sin offering
To carry out the procedure of the guilt offering
To follow the procedure of the peace offering
Not to allow any of the thanksgiving offering to remain until the morning
To burn the leftover korbanot
Not to eat from korbanot offered with improper intentions
Not to eat from korbanot that became impure
To burn all impure korbanot
Not to eat fat
Not to eat blood

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.