[Avodah] All transgressions are sins?

[Simon Montagu]

On Dec 23, 2007 9:30 PM, saul mashbaum <smash52 at netvision.net.il> wrote:
>
> I have seen sources (which I can't quote  precisely now), that there are a
> total of 620 mitzvot, 613 for Jews and 7 for BN  (I think that there are 620
> words  in the aseret hadibrot).
>
I also can't quote precise sources, but I remember hearing a different
version many years ago: there are 620 *letters* in the aseret hadibrot (I
just checked, and this is correct), representing 613 mitzvot d'oraita and 7
mitzvot derabbanan on which we say "...asher kiddeshanu bemitzvotav
vetzivanu..."
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