The mitzvot of the Torah, parsha by parsha

Leviticus

The mitzvot of Behar


After Sefer HaChinuch · by a Levite of Barcelona

Mitzvot in the parsha: 24 Positive: 7 Negative: 17

The first mitzvah of the parsha

326. That we not work the land on the seventh year

Leviticus 25:4

The root of the mitzvah

The mitzvah fixes in our hearts that the world was created - just as God created in six days and rested on the seventh, we count six years and rest in the seventh, so the matter never leaves our eyes. In this way a person remembers that the land does not yield its fruit by its own power, for there is a Master over it and over its owners. Moreover, one who leaves his land for a whole year acquires generosity and grows in his trust in God.

  1. 326

    That we not work the land on the seventh year

    Negative Leviticus 25:4

  2. 327

    That we also not do work with the trees

    Negative Leviticus 25:4

  3. 328

    That we not harvest the aftergrowth on the seventh year

    Negative Leviticus 25:5

  4. 329

    That we not gather the fruit of the trees in the seventh year in the manner that we gather them in every year

    Negative Leviticus 25:5

  5. 330

    The commandment of counting the seven cycles of seven years

    Positive Leviticus 25:8

  6. 331

    The commandment of blowing the shofar on Yom Yippur of the Jubilee

    Positive Leviticus 25:9

  7. 332

    The commandment of the sanctification of the Jubilee year

    Positive Leviticus 25:10

  8. 333

    That we not work the land on the Jubilee year

    Negative Leviticus 25:11

  9. 334

    To not harvest the aftergrowth of the produce of the Jubilee year

    Negative Leviticus 25:11

  10. 335

    To not gather the fruits of the trees on the Jubilee year in the manner that we gather them in other years

    Negative Leviticus 25:11

  11. 336

    The commandment of adjudicating between the buyer and the seller

    Positive Leviticus 25:14

  12. 337

    To not mistreat in buying and selling

    Negative Leviticus 25:14

  13. 338

    To not mistreat any Israelite with words

    Negative Leviticus 25:17

  14. 339

    That we not sell a field in the Land of Israel in perpetuity

    Negative Leviticus 25:23

  15. 340

    The commandment of returning land to its owners on the Jubilee

    Positive Leviticus 25:24

  16. 341

    The law of redemption of houses of walled cities until the completion of a year

    Positive Leviticus 25:29

  17. 342

    To not change the open areas of the Levites

    Negative Leviticus 25:34

  18. 343

    To not lend with interest to an Israelite

    Negative Leviticus 25:37

  19. 344

    That we not make a Hebrew slave perform demeaning work, like the work of a Canaanite slave

    Negative Leviticus 25:39

  20. 345

    That we not sell a Hebrew slave upon the auctioning stone

    Negative Leviticus 25:42

  21. 346

    To not make a Hebrew slave perform oppressive work

    Negative Leviticus 25:43

  22. 347

    The commandment of work with a Canaanite slave forever

    Positive Leviticus 25:46

  23. 348

    To not allow a gentile to work a Hebrew slave sold to him

    Negative Leviticus 25:53

  24. 349

    That we not prostrate ourselves on a figured stone, even to God

    Negative Leviticus 26:1