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From: nixon@utcsrgv.UUCP (Brian Nixon)
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Subject: Living by the Commandments
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Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 11:22:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 11:22:11 1983
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  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.