Mitzvos in Parshas Ki Seitzei
Parsha Pages Youth | August 20, 2023
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Ki Seitzei has the most mitzvos, most positive mitzvos, most prohibitions, and most parshiyos of any sedra in the Torah.
Mitzvos: 74 Mitzvos in the Parsha (Number 532-605 of 613 Mitzvos in the Torah)
- 27 Positive Mitzvos and 47 Prohibitions
- Laws of a beautiful woman taken captive during a war.
- Not to sell a beautiful woman taken captive during a war.
- Not to make the capture woman work as a slave.
- To hang a person after his execution where it is required.
- Not to leave a person who was hung overnight on the gallows, and not to leave a dead person overnight in one’s house (unless for the dead person’s honor).
- To bury a person the same day one dies (whether by the court or other means).
- To return lost property to its owner.
- Not to turn a “blind eye” to a lost object.
- Not to leave another’s animal lying under its burden.
- To assist lifting a burden for a fellow Jew.
- A woman should not wear men’s clothing.
- A man should not wear women’s clothing.
- Not to take the mother-bird while its eggs or young are in the nest.
- To send away the mother-bird when taking its eggs or young.
- To build a parapet around a dangerous roof or pit.
- To build guard rails around a dangerous roof or pit.
- Not to leave a dangerous roof or pit without guard rails.
- Not to sow a mixture of seeds in a vineyard in Eretz Yisrael.
- Not to eat the produce of mixed seeds grown in a vineyard in Eretz Yisrael.
- Not to work with two kinds of animals together.
- Not to wear cloth of wool and linen.
- The laws of Kiddushin (marriage).
- A man who spreads an evil report about his new wife must remain with her permanently.
- A man who spreads an evil report about his new wife may not divorce her.
- The court should stone a person who is sentenced to stoning.
- Not to punish a person who was forced to transgress.
- A rapist must offer to marry his victim.
- A rapist is not allowed to divorce his victim.
- A sterilized man many not marry a Jewish girl.
- A child from an adulterous or incestuous relationship may not marry a Jewish girl.
- A male from Amon or Moav may not marry a Jewish girl.
- Not to make peace with Amon or Moav prior to a war.
- A descendent of Eisav may not marry a Jewish person.
- An Egyptian or the first-generation child may not marry a Jewish person even after conversion.
- A tameh person may not enter the place of the Leviim (in the Bais haMikdash).
- To prepare a toilet outside the Jewish encampment during wartime.
- To prepare a shovel for each person in the army so one may cover his excrement.
- Not to oppress a slave who flees from his master outside Eretz Yisrael into the law.
- Not to be intimate with a woman out of wedlock.
- Not to bring the wage of a harlot or the exchange-price of a dog as an offering in the Bais haMikdash.
- Not to borrow at interest from a Jew.
- To charge interest to a non-Jew.
- Not to delay a vow to make an offering or to delay the offering of a consecrated animal for the three festivals.
- To fulfill one’s vows and oaths.
- To permit a hired worker to eat certain types of produce while he is under hire.
- A hired worker should not take more produce from this employer than he is allowed.
- A hired worker should not eat from his employer’s crop during his actual work.
- One who wishes to divorce his wife must do so with a get (written document).
- A divorced man may not take back his ex-wife after she has married another (and then divorced or widowed from the second person).
- A bridegroom may not part from his wife during the first year of marriage.
- A bridegroom must remain with his wife during the first year of marriage.
- Not to pawn any objects with which sustaining food is prepared.
- Not to pluck out signs of tzaraas.
- Not to take an object in pledge from a debtor by force.
- Not to withhold a pledged object from its owner when he needs it.
- To return a pledged object to its owner when he needs it.
- To pay the earnings of a hired worker on the day that he earned them.
- A person may not give testimony of a close relative at trial.
- Not to pervert justice in the case of a convert or an orphan.
- Not to take anything in pledge from a window.
- To leave forgotten sheaves for the poor.
- Not to take a forgotten sheave of grain or forgotten fruit.
- To administer lashes to a person who transgresses certain prohibitions.
- Not to give additional lashes, or hit any Jew.
- Not to muzzle to a domestic animal during its work.
- A childless widow should not may any person other than her late husband’s brother.
- A childless widow should marry her late husband’s brother.
- The mitzvah of Chalizah (release from marrying the late husband’s brother).
- To save a person pursued by a killer, by attaching the killer.
- Not to have mercy on a pursuing killer.
- Not to keep inaccurate scales or weights, even if they are not used.
- To remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people in the Midbar.
- To eradicate the descendants of Amalek.
- Not to forget what Amalek did to the Jewish people when they came out of Egypt.

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