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Page 5 - The Torah commands us.....

To love God with our whole heart, soul and strength.

To sincerely believe in God and trust God at all times.

To obey the laws of the Torah and heartily perform it.
 
To serve God with deep reverence and to be unblemished.
 
To pray to God for the happiness and welfare of the tsar (emperor), his family and his country in which we live.
 
To submit to the directions of nobles and to the results of the courts.
 
To love and appreciate each person.
 
To help poor people.
 
To honor old people and people who are older than us.
 
That each male must visit the Holy Land in the time of pilgrimage festivals - Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuot - ( if it is possible), or at least visit the kenasa for prayer, and give a financial contribution according to his means.
 
That each boy must be circumcised on the eighth day after birth.
 
To comply as early as possible to all what was promised.
 
To preserve a girls virginity until her wedding.
 
To repent and to pray for forgiveness of our sins. 
 
Not to oppress widows and orphans.
 
To help to raise cattle that have fallen.
 
To pay wages to the day labourer immediately after work.
 
To return to the original owner a lost item.
 
To break a clay pot and throw away food, if they have fallen  on ritually unclean vermin (rat, mouse, various types of lizards, geckos, scink a chameleon).
 
To wash a metal or wooden bowl and throw away food, if it has fallen on ritually unclean vermin.
 
To only eat fish that has fins and scales.
 
To eat only animals that chew the cud and who have split hooves.
 
To eat ritually pure birds only. 
 
Not to mislead a blind person from their way.
 
Not to insult a deaf person.