Maimonides – Book of Commandments

Description Sefer Hamitzvot (“Book of Commandments”) is a work by the 12th century rabbi, philosopher and physician Maimonides. It is a listing of all the commandments of the Torah, with a brief description for each. It originally appeared in Arabic under the title “Kitab al-Farai’d”, and was translated by the Provençal rabbi Moses ibn Tibbon (first printed 1497). A new translation from the original Arabic was done by the noted Yemenite scholar Rabbi Yosef Kapach. In this work, the Rambam lists all the 613 mitzvot traditionally contained in the Torah (Pentateuch). This work is regarded as the most authoritative listing of the commandments, and numerous later works rely on its enumeration.