Chapter 1: The Mitzvos

Number of Mitzvos:

There are a total of Seventy Four Mitzvos in Parshas Ki Seitzei; Twenty Seven positive commands and Fourty seven negative commands. The following are the commands in the order listed by the Sefer Hachinuch.

A. Positive:

1. Mitzvah 532/Positive 217: To act appropriately with the Yefas Toar.
2. Mitzvah 533/Positive 218: To hang those who are liable for death by court.
3. Mitzvah 534/Positive 219: To burry those hung.
4. Mitzvah 535/Positive 220: To return lost objects.
5. Mitzvah 536/Positive 221: To help load one’s friends donkey.
6. Mitzvah 537/Positive 222: Shiluach Hakein.
7. Mitzvah 538/Positive 223: To make a fence around a roof and remove any danger from others.
8. Mitzvah 539/Positive 224: To be Mikadesh a woman prior to marriage.
9. Mitzvah 540/Positive 225: To remain married to a wife whom one was Motzi Shem Ra.
10. Mitzvah 541/Positive 226: To stone one had relations with an engaged Naarah.
11. Mitzvah 542/Positive 227: A rapist of a Naara Besula must marry her.
12. Mitzvah 543/Positive 228: To designate an area for doing one’s needs at a time of battle.
13. Mitzvah 544/Positive 229: For every soldier to carry a peg with which he can dig with when he makes his needs.
14. Mitzvah 545/Positive 230: To ask for interest from Gentiles when giving them a loan.
15. Mitzvah 546/Positive 231: To fulfill our vows.
16. Mitzvah 547/Positive 232: To allow a worker to eat the food he is working with.
17. Mitzvah 548/Positive 233: To divorce one’s wife with a document.
18. Mitzvah 549/Positive 234: To rejoice one’s wife for the first year and not go to war.
19. Mitzvah 550/Positive 235: To return a Mashkon to the owner for when he needs.
20. Mitzvah 551/Positive 236: To pay a worker on time.
21. Mitzvah 552/Positive 237: To leave a bundle of Shichicha in the field for the poor.
22. Mitzvah 553/Positive 238: To give Malkos for certain sins.
23. Mitzvah 554/Positive 239: Yibum.
24. Mitzvah 555/Positive 240: Chalitza.
25. Mitzvah 556/Positive 241: Kill a Rodeif.
26. Mitzvah 557/Positive 242: To remember the acts of Amaleik.
27. Mitzvah 558/Positive 243: To destroy Amalek.

B. Negative:

1. Mitzvah 559/Negative 316: Not to sell a Yefas Tora.
2. Mitzvah 560/Negative 317: Not to make a Yefas Toar work in slavery.
3. Mitzvah 561/Negative 318: Not to allow one who was hung to remain on the tree.
4. Mitzvah 562/Negative 319: Not to ignore the return of a lost object.
5. Mitzvah 563/Negative 320: Not to ignore helping the fallen animal of a friend.
6. Mitzvah 564/Negative 321: A woman may not wear Beged Ish.
7. Mitzvah 565/Negative 322: A man may not wear Beged Isha.
8. Mitzvah 566/Negative 323: Not to take the birds with its chicks or eggs.
9. Mitzvah 567/Negative 324: Not to ignore a public safety hazard.
10. Mitzvah 568/Negative 325: Not to plant Kilayim of grains and grapes.
11. Mitzvah 569/Negative 326: Not to eat Kileiy Hakerem.
12. Mitzvah 570/Negative 327: Not to plow using two different animals.
13. Mitzvah 571/Negative 328: Not to wear Shatnez.
14. Mitzvah 572/Negative 329: Not to divorce a woman whom one was Motzi Sheim Ra.
15. Mitzvah 573/Negative 330: Not punish one who was forced to sin [Oness].
16. Mitzvah 574/Negative 331: Not to divorce a woman whom one raped and then married.
17. Mitzvah 575/Negative 332: A Saris [impotent] may not marry a Jewess.
18. Mitzvah 576/Negative 333: A Mamzer may not marry a Jewess.
19. Mitzvah 577/Negative 334: An Amoni/Moavi convert may not marry a Jewess.
20. Mitzvah 578/Negative 335: Not to make peace with Amon/Moav.
21. Mitzvah 579/Negative 336: Not to prevent an Edomite convert from marrying a Jewess.
22. Mitzvah 580/Negative 337: Not to prevent an Egyptian convert from marrying a Jewess.
23. Mitzvah 581/Negative 338: An impure person may not enter into the Levite encampment.
24. Mitzvah 582/Negative 339: Not to force a run-away slave to return from Eretz Yisrael to his master in the Diaspora.
25. Mitzvah 583/Negative 340: Not to oppress a slave who ran away to Eretz Yisrael.
26. Mitzvah 584/Negative 341: Not to have relations with a woman without Chuppah and Kiddushin.
27. Mitzvah 585/Negative 342: Not to offer a Karban that was the Esnan of a Zona or in exchange of a dog.
28. Mitzvah 586/Negative 343: Not to take interest from a loan to a Jew.
29. Mitzvah 587/Negative 344: Not to delay a Neder/Nedava.
30. Mitzvah 588/Negative 345: A worker may not take more food than allowed under law.
31. Mitzvah 589/Negative 346: A worker may not eat on the job.
32. Mitzvah 590/Negative 347: Not to remarry an ex who remarried.
33. Mitzvah 591/Negative 348: A Chasan may not leave home the first year.
34. Mitzvah 592/Negative 349: Not to take food vessels as a Mashkon.
35. Mitzvah 593/Negative 350: Not to remove the signs of Tzaraas.
36. Mitzvah 594/Negative 351: Not to forcibly take a Mashkon from a debtor.
37. Mitzvah 595/Negative 352: Not to abstain from returning the Mashkon from the debtor upon him needing it.
38. Mitzvah 596/Negative 353: A relative may not testify.
39. Mitzvah 597/Negative 354: For a judge not to twist judgment of an orphan or convert.
40. Mitzvah 598/Negative 355: Not to take a Mashkon from a widow.
41. Mitzvah 599/Negative 356: Not to take the bundles of Shichicha left in the field.
42. Mitzvah 600/Negative 357: Not to give more lashes than required.
43. Mitzvah 601/Negative 358: Not to muzzle an animal while it works in the field.
44. Mitzvah 602/Negative 359: For a Yevama not to amrry anyone else other than her Yavam.
45. Mitzvah 603/Negative 360: Not to have mercy on a Rodeif.
46. Mitzvah 604/Negative 361: Not to own false measurements.
47. Mitzvah 605/Negative 362: Not to forget the actions of Amaleik.

Chapter 2: Outline of the Parsha

 Pesukim: 110 [Siman:עלי]

Rishon

1. Yefas Toar:
   • If one sees a beautiful woman during war he is to bring her home and shave her head and she is to grow her nails.
   • She is to not wear her beautiful clothing.
   • She is to sit in the home and mourn her parents for a month.
   • If one does not want her she is to be sent out free.
2. Son of beloved wife and son of hated wife:
   • The Bechor always gets precedence and a double portion even if he is the Bechor of the hated wife.
3. Ben Sorer Umorer:
   • If one has a son that does not listen to them the son is to be brought by the parents to the city gates.
   • The son is to be stoned.

     Sheiyni

4. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • Not to allow one who was hung to remain on the tree.
   • Hashavas Aveida
   • Helping load the donkey of a friend.
   • Not to wear Beged Isha/Ish.
   • Shiluach Hakein: One is granted long life for fulfilling this comamnd 

     Shelishi

5. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • Making a fence on the roof.
   • Issur of Kilayim of grapes and grains.
   • Issur of Kilayim plowing with two different animals.
   • Issur of Shatnez.
   • Mitzvah of Tzitzis.
   • Motzi Shem Ra: He is to be fined and cannot divorce his wife
   • Issur oif Eishes Ish-Both the adultery and adulteress are to be killed.
   • If she was a Naarah Meurasa-she is to be stoned.
   • If she was raped only he is killed.
   • The law if one raped a single Naarah.
   • Not to marry one’s father’s wife.
   • A Saris [impotent] may not marry a Jewess.
   • A Mamzer may not marry a Jewess.
   • An Amoni/Moavi convert may not marry a Jewess.
   • Not to make peace with Amon/Moav.

     Revi’i

6. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • Not to prevent an Edomite convert from marrying a Jewess.
   • Not to prevent an Egyptian convert from marrying a Jewess.
   • An impure person may not enter into the Levite encampment.
   • Every soldier is to carry a peg with which he can dig with when he makes his needs.
   • Not to force a run-away slave to return from Eretz Yisrael to his master in the Diaspora.
   • Not to oppress a slave who ran away to Eretz Yisrael.
   • Not to have relations with a woman without Chuppah and Kiddushin.
   • Not to offer a Karban that was the Esnan of a Zona or in exchange of a dog.
   • Not to take interest from a loan to a Jew.
   • To ask for interest from Gentiles when giving them a loan.
   • To fulfill our vows.

     Chamishi

      

7. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • To allow a worker to eat the food he is working with.
   • A worker may not take more food than allowed under law.
   • To divorce one’s wife with a document.
   • Not to remarry an ex who remarried.

     Shishi

8. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • To rejoice one’s wife for the first year and not go to war.
   • Not to take food vessels as a Mashkon.
   • To kill a kidnapper
   • Not to remove the signs of Tzaraas.
   • Remember what Hashem did to Miriam when she left Mitzrayim.
   • Laws of a Mashkon. 

     Shevi’i

9. Miscellaneous Mitzvos:
   • To pay a worker on time.
   • A relative may not testify.
   • For a judge not to twist judgment of an orphan or convert.
   • Not to give more lashes than required.
   • Mitzvah of Yibum
   • Chalitza
   • If a woman injures a man in his private area she is to have her arm cut off.
   • Not to own false measurements.
   • Remembering Amaleik