Core tenet of Judaism⚖ contested within
The commandments are how the covenant is lived.
613 mitzvot pattern life — how binding halakha remains is the live argument between the movements.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The tradition counts 613 commandments, elaborated by the Talmud into halakha — "the walking." The law is not the price of God's favor; it is the medium of the relationship, the way a people keeps a covenant with its whole body: kitchen, calendar, commerce, speech.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
The word is very near you — in your mouth and in your heart, to do it.
Deuteronomy 30:14
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Sabbath, moved to Sunday.
Christianity · precept
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The gods hold offices.
Taoism
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Sabbath by the letter.
Karaite Judaism · rite
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The seventh day is still the Sabbath.
Seventh-day Adventism
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The old calendar is not a detail.
The Ancient Church of the East
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The seventh-day assembly.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom · rite
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