Sifrei Mitzvot

Kitzur Sefer Haredim of Rabbi Elazar Azcari

19th-century work listing the commandments according to the body parts that perform them.

Sefer HaChinukh

Anonymous medieval work detailing and explaining the 613 commandments.

Minchat Chinukh

19th-century work that conceptually analyzes the legal parts of the Sefer HaChinukh.

Sefer HaMitzvot

Maimonides’ 12th-century list of the 613 commandments with brief descriptions, originally written in Arabic.

Sefer HaMitzvot

Maimonides’ list of the 613 commandments with brief descriptions, originally written in Arabic.

Commentary

Sefer HaMitzvot HaKatzar

20th-century list of the commandments applicable outside of Israel in the post-Temple era.

Sefer Hamitzvot of Rasag

10th-century poem that concisely summarizes the 613 commandments.

Sefer Mitzvot Gadol

13th-century text enumerating and elaborating upon the commandments, also known as the Semag.

Sefer Mitzvot Katan

13th-century poetic abridgment of the Sefer Mitzvot Gadol that blends laws and stories, also known as the Semak

Sefer Yereim

12th-century legal work that incorporates ethical teachings, based on the Halakhot Gedolot.

About Sifrei Mitzvot

Sifrei Mitzvot are works that seek to identify each of the commandments (“mitzvot”) in light of the talmudic tradition that “613 commandments were stated to Moses [in the Torah]: 365 prohibitions... and 248 positive commandments.” (Makkot 23b).

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