Rambam - 1 Chapter a Day

To rest on the eighth day of the festival of Sukkot, as [Leviticus 23:36] states: "On the eighth day, there shall be a sacred holiday."

To dwell in a sukkah for seven days, as [Leviticus 23:42] states: "And you shall dwell in sukkot for seven days."

To take the lulav [and the other three species on Sukkot], as [Leviticus 23:40] states: "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of a beautiful tree, a palm branch,...."

To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh HaShanah, as [Numbers 29:1] states: "It will be a day of [shofar] blasts for you.^"

To give a half-shekel each year, as [Exodus 30:13] states: "This shall be given by all those included in the census....^"

To listen to any prophet who will arise in any era, provided he does not add or detract [from the Torah's commandments], as [Deuteronomy 18:15] states: "You shall listen to him."

To appoint a king, as [Deuteronomy 17:15] states: "You shall surely set a king upon yourselves."

To obey the High Court regarding all [the or­dinances] they establish for Israel, as [Deuteron­omy 17:11] states: "Carry out the judgment which they render for you."

To follow the majority if there is a difference of opinion in the Sanhedrin concerning a law, as [Exodus 23:2] states: "Follow after the majority."

To appoint judges and court officers in each and every Jewish community, as [Deuteron­omy 16:18] states: "Appoint judges and court officers...."

To treat litigants equally when they appear [in court] to be judged, as [Leviticus 19:15] states: "Judge your fellow man with righteousness."

For anyone who has evidence to testify in court, as [Leviticus 5:1] states: "If he was a witness, saw, or knew...."

To cross-examine the witnesses thoroughly, as [Deuteronomy 13:15] states: "You must inves­tigate and probe, making careful enquiry."

To [punish] false witnesses [by] giving them the same penalty that they wish to have imposed [on the defendant], as [Deuteronomy 19:19] states: "And you shall do to him what he plotted to do to his brother."

To decapitate the calf [brought as atonement for an unsolved murder] as required, as [Deuteron­omy 21:4] states: "You shall decapitate the calf there in the river."

To prepare six refuge cities, as [Deuteronomy 19:3] states: "Prepare the way and divide into three [the boundary]...."

To give the Levites cities in which to dwell - they also serve as refuge centers - as [Numbers 35:2] states: "And you shall give cities to the Levites....^"

To construct a guard rail, as [Deuteronomy 22:8] states: "And you shall construct a guard rail for your roof."

To destroy false gods and all their objects of worship, as [Deuteronomy 12:2] states: "You shall surely destroy....^"

To slay the inhabitants of an apostate city and burn the city, as [Deuteronomy 13:17] states: "And you shall burn the city and all its spoil with fire."

To destroy the seven nations [that dwelled in] Eretz Yisrael, as [Deuteronomy 20:17] states: "You shall utterly destroy them."

To exterminate the seed of Amalek, as [Deuteronomy 25:19] states: "Blot out the memory of Amalek."

To constantly remember what Amalek did to us, as [Deuteronomy 25:17] states: "Remember what Amalek did to you."

To wage a voluntary war according to the laws prescribed by the Torah, as [Deuteronomy 20:10] states: "When you approach the city...."

To anoint a priest [who will address the people before] battle, as [Deuteronomy 20:2] states: "And it shall come to pass, when you approach the battle, the priest will come forward and speak to the people...."

To prepare a place [outside] the [army] camp [for use as a latrine], as [Deuteronomy 23:13] states: "Prepare a place for yourselves outside the camp."

To prepare a shovel [to cover one's excre­ment], as [Deuteronomy 23:14] states: "You shall have a shovel in addition to your weapons."

To return a stolen object, as [Leviticus 5:23] states: "And he shall return the object which he stole."

To give charity, as [Deuteronomy 15:8] states: "You shall surely open your hand [to your poor brother]."

To give a severance gift to a Hebrew servant, as [Deuteronomy 15:14] states: "You shall surely give him gifts...." Similarly, [this gift is given] to a Hebrew maidservant.

To lend to the poor, as [Exodus 22:24] states: "If you will lend money to my people...." In this instance, the word "if" does not refer to a matter left to one's volition, but to a commandment, as [Deuteronomy 15:8] states: "You shall surely lend him."

To lend to a gentile at interest, as [Deuteron­omy 23:21] states: "Take interest from a gentile." Based on the oral tradition, we have learned that this is a positive commandment.^b

To return security to its owner, as [Deuteron­omy 24:13] states: "You shall surely return the security to him."

To pay a worker his wage on time, as [Deuteronomy 24:15] states: "Pay him his wage on the day it is due."

For a hired worker to be allowed to eat [from produce] while he is working with it, as [Deuteronomy 23:25-26] states: "When you enter your neighbor's vineyard... When you enter your neighbor's standing grain...."

To assist a colleague in unloading a burden which he or his beast [is carrying], as [Exodus 23:5] states: "You shall surely help him."^b

To [help a colleague] load a burden unto a beast, as [Deuteronomy 22:4] states: " You shall lift it up with him."

To return a lost object, as [Deuteronomy 22:1] states: "You shall surely return them to your brother."

To rebuke a person who sins, as [Leviticus 19:17] states: "You shall surely rebuke your fellow men."

To love every member of our people, as [Leviticus 19:18] states: "And you shall love your neighbor as yourself."

To love a convert, as [Deuteronomy 10:19] states: "And you shall love a convert."

To balance scales with correct weights, as [Leviticus 19:36] states: "You shall have correct scales, with correct weights."

To honor the Sages, as [Leviticus 19:32] states: "Rise before an elder."

To honor one's father and mother, as [Exodus 20:12] states: "Honor your father and mother."

To fear one's father and mother, as [Leviticus 19:3] states: "A person must fear his mother and his father."

To be fruitful and multiply, as [Genesis 9:7] states: "Be fruitful and multiply."

To have sexual relations [only within] marriage, as [Deuteronomy 24:1] states: "If a man takes a woman [as a wife]...."

For a groom to rejoice together with his wife for a year, as [Deuteronomy 24:5] states: "He shall be free for his home for one year."

To circumcise a son, as [Leviticus 12:3] states: "On the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised."1

To marry the widow of one's brother who died childless, as [Deuteronomy 25:5] states: "Her yavam shall come unto her."

To remove the yavam's shoe [if he does not marry his brother's widow], as [Deuteronomy 25:9] states: "And she shall remove his shoe from his foot."

For a rapist to marry the woman he raped, as [Deuteronomy 22:29] states: "She shall become his wife."

For a person who made defamatory remarks about his wife to remain married to her for his entire life, as [Deuteronomy 22:19] states: "She shall become his wife. He may not send her away for his entire life."

To carry out the judgment concerning a seducer, fining him fifty shekels and carrying out the other laws regarding this matter, as [Exodus 22:15] states: "If a person will seduce...."

To carry out the procedure [the Torah] prescribes for a yefat to'ar, as [Deuteronomy 21:11] states: "And if you see a beautiful woman among the captives...."

To divorce with a get, as [Deuteronomy 24:1] states: "And he shall write a bill of divorce for her and place it in her hand."

To carry out the [procedure] prescribed for a sotah, as [Numbers 5:30] states: "And the priests will carry out all these laws for her."

To whip the wicked, as [Deuteronomy 25:2] states: "The judge will cast him down and beat him."

To exile a person who accidentally kills a person, as [Numbers 35:25] states: "And he shall dwell there until the High Priest dies...."

For a court to execute by decapitation, as [Exodus 21:20] states: "Revenge shall surely be taken."

For a court to execute by strangulation, as [Leviticus 20:10] states: "The adulterer and the adulteress shall die."

For a court to execute by burning [the condemned] with fire, as [Leviticus 20:14] states: "They shall burn him and them with fire."

For a court to execute by stoning [the con­demned] with stones, as [Deuteronomy 22:24] states: "And you shall stone them."

To hang [the corpses] of those liable for hanging, as [Deuteronomy 21:22] states: "And you shall hang them on a gallows."

To bury [the body of] an executed person on the day of his execution, as [Deuteronomy 21:22] states: "For you shall surely bury him on that day."

To carry out the laws concerning a Hebrew servant, as [Exodus 21:2] states: "When you pur­chase a Hebrew servant...."

To marry a Hebrew maidservant, as [Exodus 21:8] states: "Who has designated her for himself... and she will be redeemed."

To redeem a Hebrew maidservant, as [Exo­dus, ibid.] states: "And she will be redeemed."

To have a Canaanite servant serve forever, as [Leviticus 25:46] states: "You shall have them serve you forever."

For a person who injures [a colleague] to pay him damages, as [Exodus 21:18] states: "If men will quarrel and one man will strike [his colleague]...."

To judge regarding the damages caused by an ox, as [Exodus 21:35] states: "If an ox belonging to one person gores an ox belonging to a colleague...."

To judge regarding the damages caused by a pit, as [Exodus 21:33] states: If a person will open a pit...."

To judge a thief, obligating him for payment or execution, as [Exodus 21:37] states: "Should a theft be perpetrated," as [Exodus 22:1] states: "If when breaking in," and, as [Exodus 21:16] states: "If one kidnaps a person and sells him,…. "2

To judge regarding the damages caused by grazing, as [Exodus 22:4] states: "If a person will graze [his animals] in a field or vineyard...."

To judge regarding the damages caused by fire, as [Exodus 22:5] states: "If fire will break out and catch in thorns...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding an unpaid watchman, as [Exodus 22:6] states: "If a person will give a colleague money or utensils [to watch]...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding a paid watchman, as [Exodus 22:9] states: "Should a person give a donkey or an ox...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding a borrower, as [Exodus 22:13] states: "If a person will borrow from a colleague...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding business transactions, as [Leviticus 22:14] states: "If you sell merchandise to your colleague...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding claims made by one person against another, as [Exodus 22:8] states: ^"For every matter of trespass, concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, or con­cerning a sheep...."

To save a person who is being pursued even if it is necessary to kill the pursuer, as [Deuteronomy 25:12] states: "And you shall cut off her hand...."

To render judgment [in questions] regarding inheritances as [Numbers 27:8] states: "If a person dies without having a son...."