Commandments
According to Maimonides and Sefer ha-Chinuch, there are 3 positive and 3 negative commandments in the parshah.
- To make the declaration on bringing the first fruits
- To make the tithe declaration
- Not to eat the second tithe while unclean, even in Jerusalem, until it has been redeemed
- Not to eat the second tithe while mourning
- Not to spend redemption money of the second tithe for anything but food and drink
- To imitate God’s good and upright ways
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““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.