A new book illustrating each one of the 613 commandments according to Maimonides’ count has been published by artist Archie Rand. Rand began working on the original masterwork for the book, a 17 foot ...
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The Talmud (Tractate Makot 24a) quotes several outstanding Torah personalities in our history regarding how they encapsulated the essence of the 613 mitzvot of the Torah, as befitting the minimal ...
A brightly-colored comic-book cast of characters illustrate artist Archie Rand’s breathtakingly ambitious massive oeuvre on the biblical commandments, “The 613.” Complete with astronauts, swimmers, ...
On the other hand, the remaining two mitzvot — specifically the first two of the Ten Commandments, both of which are explicitly written in the first person in God’s name and identify God as the one ...
The mitzvot can be divided into two categories, ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ rules that Jews should do or not do: ...