25) There are a few more biblical commandments to post here, I will get to them when I have more time...
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The following are commandments that are either outright from the biblical texts, or they are minor decrees that offshoot from the biblical commandments, or that are formulated through the basic foundational law behind the shabat...
1) You must not cook during the shabat
2) You must not prepare a plate of food during the shabat
3) You must not pour yourself a drink during the shabat, thus you must have more than
enough drinks poured before shabat into glasses or cups.
4) You must not add wood to a fire during the shabat.
5) You must not light a candle during the shabat.
6) You must not add oil to an oil lamp during the shabat; only the priests are allowed to
do this inside the Temple.
7) You must not kill an animal for food during the shabat.
8) You must not pick food out of your garden during the shabat, nor off your trees.
9) You may move your blanket during the shabat so that you can stay warm.
10) You must not move your pillow, however, during the shabat, because it has nothing to
do with trying to stay warm. Therefore, you must fix it how you want it before the shabat
so that you can lay on it comfortably.
11) You must not bathe with soap during the shabat, nor put on lotions or creams during
shabat.
12) If you have to bathe during the shabat because you accidentally become unclean, or if
you are already unclean, and you must bathe, it must be done in a flowing body of water
or large body of water.
13) Of course, you may pick up a coat during the shabat to put it on, but you must not simply
carry it around.
14) You must not have sex with your wife during the shabat, because you are not allowed to
become unclean during the shabat, nor move each other, even if you don't become
unclean.
15) You must turn off all the meters to your house before Shabat, because if they are left on
you will be conducting business during the shabat, because all that is running is not free,
and you are also participating with those who are breaking the Shabat by working for
you on that day to run your utilities. You must use your common sense here, your
usage of their utilities pays their wages, the utilities are NOT free.
16) You are not allowed to conduct any form of business during the shabat, whether that is
for buying or for sell something, nor are you allowed to trade for something during the
shabat (Amos 8:5, Nehemiah 10:29-32.)
17) You must not use your phone, nor computer, nor any device during the shabat.
18) You may pick up a book during the Shabat, if it does not deal with shopping or seeing
what you could buy after the Shabat. Thus, you must not look at ads, nor catalogs, nor
look in the classifieds either.
19) You must not draw during the shabat.
20) You must not erase something during the shabat.
21) You must not write anything during the shabat, since that can wait until after the shabat.
22) You must not go hunting.
23) You must not go fishing.
24) You must not ride a bicycle, nor skateboard, nor a scooter during the shabat.
25) You must not go skiing.
26) You are not allowed to fly on an airplane during the shabat.
27) You must not kill during the shabat, unless a bad bug actually lands on you, then you
can obviously kill the bug. However, if it is not a biting bug, you must not kill it.
28) You may shew away bad animals from your livestock during the shabat.
29) You must not ride your horse, nor animals during the shabat, for they too must not carry
a burden during the shabat.
30) You may go swimming during the shabat, but you must not deliberately splash around.
31) You must not wash your clothes.
32) You may lock and unlock your doors during the shabat.
33) You must not do any household chores.
34) You must not fix anything that might break.
35) If an accidental fire breaks out somewhere on your property, you may obviously put it
out if it is dealing with a structure, but you must do the least amount of work when doing
so. If a fire is in a controled state, however, on empty land or in a trash zone you must
not put it out, but keep a sharp on on it so that it does not spread and threaten
something.
36) You cannot open a window during the shabat.
37) You must not exercise during the shabat. For the point behind the shabat is to also gain
strength for the following week, and so rest.
38) You must not go running during the shabat.
39) You must not exert yourself during the shabat.
40) A mother may pick up her child in order to nurse him or her during the shabat.
41) A mother may clean up her young child, and possibly change their clothes during the
shabat if needed. She may change their diaper as well, obviously. She is not allowed to
pick up a toy or rattle during the shabat, because she can just make funny faces, rub the
child's feet and other such things. A mother is not allowed to carry her baby around
during the shabat. She can for a short while after nursing in order for the child to belch,
but that is it.
42) A father or mother may pick up a blanket during the shabat in order to bundle up their
young one, if the young one can't do it themselves, and you can help them with any
basic needs a small child can not do for themselves.
43) You must not milk your animals during the shabat, you can do this before or after shabat.
44) If your roof starts leaking during the shabat, you must not fix it during the shabat.
45) You must not water your plants during the shabat.
46) You must not sew any clothes during the shabat.
47) When you are eating during the shabat and you eat everything off your plate, you must
not pick up your plate in order to move it or get it out of the way.
48) Even if you do not pick up your plate, you must not move your plate during the shabat.
49) If you are eating and then accidently drop a utinsil on the floor and you think you defiled
it, you must leave the utinsel. Therefore, you out to have extra utinsils laying on the
table.
50) You are not allowed to wash your dishes during the shabat, nor rinse them off during the
shabat, nor put them in the sink.
51) You are not allowed to comb your hair during the shabat.
52) You are not allowed to brush your teeth during the shabat.
53) You are not allowed to pick up two books at the same time during the shabat, you must
only pick up one book up at a time if you want to read something.
54) You are not allowed to pick up a Torah scroll during the shabat for it is too heavy and
there is no need to, for there are Torah books now days that do not weigh very much.
However, if you still want to read from a Torah scroll during the shabat, it must already be
rolled open to the place you want to read at before the shabat begins.
55) You are not allowed to ride on, nor drive a boat during the shabat. You are also not
allowed to be on board a cruise ship during shabat, as the crew would be working for
you to run the ship, plus there are other problems facing cruise ships when it come to
the shabat.
56) You may lock your doors during the shabat.
57) If a theif breaks into your home, you may strike him with an object that you are normally
not allowed to pick up during the shabat. This even includes the use of a gun.
58) To go along with "you must not cook during the shabat," you also must not take things
out of the oven during the shabat, nor out of the mircowave oven.
59) You must not dish up food during the shabat, for you must prepare everything before
shabat. You must not even dish up "seconds" during the shabat. Thus, if you think you
will want more of something during the shabat, you must make yourself two or more
servings before the shabat begins and put it on the table or another table.
60) If you have two different breeds of the same kind of livestock, like goats or something
else, yet you keep them apart as the Torah commands us, so that they do not cross-
breed. If somehow one escapes or gets loose somehow and tries to mate with another
animal he or she is not allowed to mate with, you may deal with this situation during the
shabat. However, you must do the least amount of work possible. You must get the loose
or escaped animal out of the area and either penned up or tied up until after shabat
when you can deal with it better.
61) Because you cannot do business during the shabat, you cannot pay bills during the
shabat.
62) Because you cannot deal with money during the shabat, you must not carry stamps for
the mail during the shabat.
63) You must not get the mail during the shabat, nor send it.
64) You must not open an envelope during the shabat.
65) You must not open a box during the shabat.
66) If a "door-to-door" person comes to your door to either sell you something or preach
something, you must not talk to him, if you do talk to him you must tell him or them that
he or they are not allowed on your property during the shabat.
67) You must not open a gate during the shabat.
68) You must not move a chair or seat during the shabat.
69) You must not organize things during the shabat.
70) If you are reading a certain book during the shabat and you are done reading it for the
time being, you must not carry it to a certain place, rather you must put it down wherever
you are at. Whether that is a table, the floor, the couch, the bed or....
71) When you pick up a cup or glass containing a liquid like milk, wine, water or... when you
are done and it is all empty, you must not longer carry it. You must put it immediately
down because the cup or glass no longer serves a purpose.
72) You cannot feed your pets during the shabat, thus you must feed them before sunset
and have sufficiant food laid out for them during the shabat. This is mostly talking about
dogs, cats, birds, horses, cattle, donkeys, goats, sheep and the like.
73) If, however, you have a young goat or something that you had before the shabat, that
has lost its mother somehow and so cannot nurse naturally, if you have other mothers
that are nursing, see if you can help one of those mothers adopted the kid. If, however,
there are not any extra nursing mothers, you may help the kid. The kid cannot be to old
to allow this however. For if the kid can eat on its own, you cannot help it nurse because
it is not a "must," for kid can eat during the shabat. After the shabat you can give the kid
some milk or help it nurse.
74) You must not collect eggs during the shabat.
75) If you want to wash your hands during the shabat and you do not have access to running
or flowing water, as from a river, stream, creek, spring or artisian well, then fill up a bowl,
or a sink, or a tub, or several bowls of water and while your hands are under the water,
rub them together. To dry them, if you care to, you must mave a towel laid out before
shabat and then you must only pat the towel, you are not allowed to pick it up.
76) You must not talk about things that you planned to do in the near future.
and...
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You must judge each situation that arises during shabat with the biblical commandments, and if a situation could wait until after Shabat, then it is not allowed to be done during the shabat.
....there are far over 300 minor decrees regarding the shabat, this is because the Torah is not going to give you every scenario that life can throw at you in written form.
Thus, this list can go on and on and on...
All these minor commandments fit into the basic gist of the overall teaching of what is and what is not allowed to be done during the shabat.
Furthermore, if one is not sure about a certain activity or deed, it is always better to take the safe road and not do it, rather than take the liberal road. The liberal road would be thinking: "Because it is not written in the bible or in the Torah, that means I am allowed to do those things during the shabat." That thinking is very foolish, and sinful
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