183.1) Do not damage another person’s property. 183.2) You may not recover a loss of property at the expense of another. 183.3) Do not bribe a General to exempt yourself from serving in the military. 183.4) Do not surrender a person or the property of another to a heathen. 183.5) Do not trample the ploughed…
182.1) Do not rob or steal. 182.2) Although it is permissible to take a thing of little value from another, do not do so. 182.3) Do not take something, even with the intent of returning it or as a joke. 182.4) Do not oppress your neighbor. 182.5) Do not try to talk your neighbor out…
181.1) Avoid a lawsuit by compromise. 181.2) Use a Jewish tribunal if you must go to court. 181.3) If a heathen is involved, you may go to a general Court of Law if he refuses to come to the Jewish tribunal. 181.4) If you are sued for a debt that you justly owe, do not…
180.1) The cancellation of debts on the Sabbatical year is still valid. 180.2) The Sabbatical (seventh) year (shemitah) cancels every loan. 180.3) A loan made on the security of a pledge is not released. 180.4) The debt is canceled if a surety paid the lender before the borrower paid the surety. 180.5) If you take…
179.1) It is good to lend money to a poor Jew. 179.2) You are bound to lend money even to a rich man if he is in need of the loan. 179.3) You must have a witness present to lend money. 179.4) Do not demand payment from the borrower when you know he cannot pay….
178.1) You must redeem the firstborn of a she-ass. Redeem it with a sheep or goat. 178.2) Once you exchange the lamb for the ass, the ass becomes profane. 178.3) You may not derive benefit from the redeemed ass. 178.4) If the owner does not wish to redeem it, he should kill it. 178.5) Priests…
176.1) Do not wear garments mixed with wool and linen. 176.2) You may make garment of sheepskin with linen thread. 176.3) Do not join wool and flax (linen) with something intervening between. (See source for details, or consult a rabbi.) 176.4) If ten mattresses are stacked and the bottom one is shatnez (wool mixed with…
175.1) Do not cross-breed cattle or fowl. 175.2) Do not do work with diverse kinds of animals. 175.3) Do not ride in a vehicle drawn by two diverse kinds of animals. 175.4) Do not tie a beast to a vehicle that is pulled by another kind of beast. 175.5) Do not tie together to animals…
174.1) Do not graft two diverse kinds of trees. 174.2) Do not preserve a tree that grows two kinds of fruit. You may eat the fruit though. 174.3) The restriction to not sow two kinds of seeds in a vineyard applies only to places inside Israel
173.1) Enjoyment of fruit, seeds, skins of all kinds of trees are forbidden as orlah (fruits of the first three years). 173.2) Redeem the fruit of the fourth year (Neta rebai). 173.3) The law of orlah does not apply outside of Israel. 173.4) Growth from a stump is not considered orlah.