[net.religion] Living by the Commandments

nixon@utcsrgv.UUCP (Brian Nixon) (08/17/83)

  There are of course more than ten commands in the Scriptures.
  Rabbinic tradition enumerates 613 commandments: 365 prohibitions and
248 positive commands.  See the entry on "Commandments" in the Encyclopaedia
Judaica for a full list with references.
  Most of the items mentioned by Tom Harris are explicitly prohibited; start
with Leviticus 19.
  On the positive side, see verse 18 of that chapter: 
	"You shall love your neighbour as yourself."
Or as Hillel said:
	"What is hateful to you, do not do unto your neighbour;
	this is the entire Torah [Law], all the rest is commentary."
Brian Nixon.