THE 613 TORAH LAW – PART 4

DIETARY LAWS
143 -- To examine the marks in cattle; so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
144 -- Not to eat the flesh of unclean animals
145 -- To examine the marks in fishes; so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
146 -- Not to eat unclean fish
147 -- To examine the marks in fowl; so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
148 -- Not to eat unclean fowl
149 -- To examine the marks in locusts; so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean
150 -- Not to eat a worm found in fruit
151 -- Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth
152 -- Not to eat any vermin of the earth
153 -- Not to eat things that swarm in the water
154 -- Not to eat of winged insects
155 -- Not to eat the flesh of an animal that is terefah; lit torn
156 -- Not to eat the flesh of an animal that died of itself
157 -- To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten
158 -- Not to eat the limb removed from a living animal
159 -- Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day
160 -- Not to take the mother-bird of the young
161 -- To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest
162 -- Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned
163 -- Not to boil meat with milk
164 -- Not to eat flesh with milk
165 -- Not to eat the, or of the, thigh-vein which shrank
166 -- Not to eat chelev; tallow fat
167 -- Not to eat blood
168 -- To cover the blood of undomesticated animals - deer etc., - and of fowl that have been killed
169 -- Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard - not to rebel against your father or mother

BUSINESS PRACTICES

170 -- Not to do wrong in buying and selling
171 -- Not to make a loan to a fellow believer on interest
172 -- Not to borrow on interest; because this would cause the lender to sin
173 -- Not to take part in any usurious transactions between borrower and the lender, neither as a surety, as a witness or as a writer of the bond for them
174 -- To lend to a poor person
175 -- Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him
176 -- Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food
177 -- Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force
178 -- Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it
179 -- To return a pledge to its owner
180 -- Not to take a pledge from a widow
181 -- Not to commit fraud in measuring
182 -- To ensure that scales and weights are correct
183 -- Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights

EMPLOYEES, SERVANTS AND SLAVES

184 -- Not to delay payment of a hired man’s wages
185 -- That the hired labourer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping
186 -- That the hired labourer shall not take more than he can eat
187 -- That the hired labourer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested
188 To pay wages to the hired man at the due time
189 -- To deal judicially with the believing bondsman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him
190 -- Not to compel the believing servant to do the work of a slave
191 -- Not to sell a believing servant as a slave
192 -- Not to treat a believing servant rigorously
193 -- Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a believing bondsman sold to him
194 -- Not to send away a believing bondsman servant empty handed when he is freed from service
195 -- To bestow liberal gifts upon the believing bondsman (at the end of his service) and the same should be done to a believing bonds woman
196 -- To redeem a believing maid servant
197 -- Not to sell a believing maid servant to another person
198 -- To espouse a believing maid servant
199 -- To keep the Canaanite slave forever
200 -- Not to surrender a slave who has fled to the land of Israel to his owner who lives outside Palestine
201 -- Not to wrong such a slave
202 -- Not to muzzle an animal, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy