Behar - Commandments

Commandments

According to Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 7 positive and 17 negative commandments in the parshah:

• Not to work the land during the seventh year (Leviticus 25:4.)
• Not to work with trees to produce fruit during that year (Leviticus 25:4.)
• Not to reap crops that grow wild that year in the normal manner (Leviticus 25:5.)
• Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way (Leviticus 25:5.)
• The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years. (Leviticus 25:8.)
• To blow the shofar on the tenth of Tishrei to free the slaves (Leviticus 25:9.)
• The Sanhedrin must sanctify the 50th year. (Leviticus 25:10.)
• Not to work the soil during the 50th year (Leviticus 25:11.)
• Not to reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:11.)
• Not to pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:11.)
• To buy and sell according to Torah law (Leviticus 25:14.)
• Not to overcharge or underpay for an article (Leviticus 25:14.)
• Not to insult or harm anybody with words (Leviticus 25:17.)
• Not to sell the land in Israel indefinitely (Leviticus 25:23.)
• To carry out the laws of sold family properties (Leviticus 25:24.)
• To carry out the laws of houses in walled cities (Leviticus 25:29.)
• Not to sell the fields but they shall remain the Levites' before and after the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:34.)
• Not to lend with interest (Leviticus 25:37.)
• Not to have a Hebrew servant do menial slave labor (Leviticus 25:39.)
• Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave is sold (Leviticus 25:42.)
• Not to work a Hebrew servant oppressively (Leviticus 25:43.)
• Canaanite slaves must be kept forever (Leviticus 25:46.)
• Not to allow a non-Jew to work a Hebrew servant oppressively (Leviticus 25:53.)
• Not to bow down on smooth stone (Leviticus 26:1.)

(Sefer HaHinnuch: The Book of Education. Translated by Charles Wengrov, 3:363–461. Jerusalem: Feldheim Pub., 1984. ISBN 0-87306-297-3.)