Lechem
The 613 mitzvos, as a list a person can actually walk
The whole count laid out plainly, so it stops being a number people quote and becomes something you can look through and recognise.
Lechem is a helper and a reminder. It is never a ruling. For anything halachic, ask your Rav.
Six hundred and thirteen is a number everybody knows and almost nobody has read. It sits in conversation as a figure rather than as a list, which is a strange thing for a list to become.
Lechem lays the whole count out plainly — mitzvos aseh and lo saaseh, in order, each one stated in a sentence rather than in a paragraph of explanation. The value is in walking it. Most people are surprised twice: by how many they keep without thinking about it, and by how many belong to a world that is not standing.
The counting itself is famously not unanimous. Lechem follows a named enumeration and says which one it is, rather than presenting one Rishon's count as the count.
This is reference material, deliberately kept off the front of the app so it does not sit between you and an ordinary day, and found instantly by search whenever you want it. Like everything else in Lechem it is never removed — a screen that is not on the front has been moved, not deleted, and the search still takes you straight to it.
In the app
The screens this page is about, with the app’s own names for them.
- The 613 mitzvos