613 Mitzvot
Dietary Laws
- To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the
unclean) (Lev. 11:2) (affirmative).
- Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4)
- To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the
unclean (Lev. 11:9) (affirmative).
- Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11)
- To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the
unclean (Deut. 14:11) (affirmative).
- Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13)
- To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the
unclean (Lev. 11:21) (affirmative).
- Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41)
- Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41-42)
- Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44)
- Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Lev. 11:43 and 46)
- Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19)
- Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is terefah (lit torn) (Ex. 22:30)
- Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21)
- To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their
flesh is to be eaten (Deut. 12:21) ("as I have commanded" in this verse refers
to the technique)
- Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23)
- Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Lev. 22:28)
- Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deut. 22:6)
- To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6-7)
- Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex. 21:28)
(negative).
- Not to boil meat with milk (Ex. 23:19)
- Not to eat flesh with milk (Ex. 34:26) (according to the
Talmud, this passage is a distinct prohibition
from the one in Ex. 23:19)
- Not to eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32:33)
- Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Lev. 7:23)
- Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26)
- To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that
have been killed (Lev. 17:13)
- Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against
father or mother) (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20)
