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Shirei Mitzvos Part 7 Finale: Rav Yehonoson Eibushitz - A Song Of The Taryag Mitzvos

Readers are welcome to view/download Shabbos the last section of Shirei Mitzvos (Lo Saaseh 277-365) from Rav Yehonoson Eibushitz.  For more background see Shirei Mitzvos Introduction.  See below for the English version we have created to help the reader better understand some of the more difficult parts in Rav Yehonoson Eibushitz's shir.  Please understand that in order to keep it in a poem we have taken a great deal of artistic license to go astray from the original intent.  All comments are welcome. We hope you enjoyed. No part of the Hebrew or English may be reproduced in any form (including print and electronic) without express written consent from info@revach.net  277.  Judge fairly and do not pity the poor 278.  Do not rule against a Rasha just because his aveiros you abhor 279.  Mete out punishment to the criminals do not be softened to tears 280.  Close your ears from hearing one litigant before the other one appears 281.  An orphan and convert judge fairly don't consider what they've become 282.  Do not sentence a person with a majority of only one 283   Think independently do not rely on your fellow judge 284.  Appoint only qualified judges from this policy do not budge 285.  Falsely do not testify if at lying you are adept 286.  Testimony from a Rasha do not accept 287.  A relative's testimony is not admissible in court 288.  Do not issue judgement based on a witness without a cohort 289.  Do not murder the righteous and innocent who were not lying in wait 290.  Circumstantial evidence is not enough to determine a defendant's fate 291.  The witnesses shall seal their mouths and not advocate 292.  A murderer is not put to death until the courts adjudicate 293.  Compassion cannot be shown to someone in hot pursuit of murder or rape 294.  Do not punish a girl involved in an illicit relationship if she tried to escape 295.  Ransom do not take from an accidental murderer to exempt him from exile 296.  Kill a murderer do not accept his ransom or his cunning and guile 297.  Save and rescue, do not stand idly by the blood of your friend 298.  Build a gate on your roof so that on your premises a life does not end 299.  Do not trip up your friend with some bad advice 300.  When Bais Din gives lashes do not give more than will suffice 301.  Your voice with gossip like a snake should not travel secrets don't reveal 302.  The hatred of your brother in your heart you shall not conceal 303.  Do not whiten your friend's face when you rebuke him for his sin 304.  When you chance upon a bird nest do not take the mother with its kin 305.  Do not take revenge on the misdeed of you friend, your anger suppress 306.  Even if you repay his evil with kindness, your grudge do not express 307.  In the place of an Egla Arufa do not allow agriculture to thrive 308.  Do not allow a witch or warlock to remain alive 309.  In a Metzora do not shave the hair 310.  Do not alter the way the tzora'as does appear 311.  The first year of marriage from the army we exempt the groom 312.  Do not move from the proclamation of the sages even if it leads to doom 313.  Upon the mitzvos of Hashem, new ones do not enact 314.  Remember the laws of Moshe, from them do not detract 315.  Be wary of a judge, him you shall not curse 316.  If their is malice in your heart against the Nasi your lips you must purse 317.  Do not widen your mouth to curse another Jew, they are blessed 318.  Your parents you shall not curse even after they are laid to rest 319.  Do not hit your parents, a bruise do not inflict 320.  Rest on Shabbos, your work you must restrict 321.  Beyond the boundaries of Shabbos do not stroll about 322.  Punishments of Bais Din, on Shabbos do not carry out 323.  On the first day of Pesach work do not perform 324.  Also on the last day when the Yam Suf in half was torn 325.  Do not do any work on the day of Bikurim the day of Shavuos 326.  Or on Rosh HaShana when we blow Tekios and Teruos 327.  On Yom Kippur we do not work, like Shabbos it should be treated 328.  The first day of Succos do not work, with happiness it should be greeted 329.  Do not work on the Shmini Atzeres a special day for a special nation 330.  With your mother you cannot have a spousal relation 331.  To the woman married to your father do not come near 332.  Also to your sister with whom a father you share 333.  Your mother's daughter you cannot marry it is a sin 334.  Your cannot engage your daughter she is your own kin 335.  From your daughter's daughter keep away 336.  With your son's daughter you may not lay 337.  A man with a woman and her daughter is a forbidden group 338.  Marrying a woman and her granddaughter is too low to stoop 339.  To both a woman and her son's daughter do not attach 340.  Your father's sister and you are not an appropriate match 341.  From your mother's sister you must turn aside 342.  The wife of your father's brother can never be your bride 343.  Do not be intimate with your son's wife 344.  Do not have relations with a woman during her menstrual strife 345.  Between you and your brother's wife build a wall 346.  Relations with your wife's sister, you should appall 347.  The wife of your friend do not live and expose her shame 348.  Do not lie with an animal, male or female wild or tame 349.  Before an animal a woman must not lie 350.  A man may not come on another, he must choose to die 351.  A son may not sleep with his father whom he holds dear 352.  Do not lie with your father's brother or your punishment will be severe 353.  From all the forbidden women avoid intimacy of any kind 354.  A mamzer who wants to marry, with an ordinary woman may not bind 355.  Without a proper marriage a man and woman may not live 356.  Do not remarry your remarried former spouse after a divorce you did give 357.  Your deceased brother's Yevama may not remarry without a proper release 358.  With the woman you forced a relationship you must forever live in peace 359.  You may not divorce your wife if with slander you abuse 360.  Do not live with your wife if your reproductive organs are ruined and of no use 361.  The reproductive organs of an animal do not destroy and render it sterile 362.  Do not crown for a King a foreigner or a Ger, you will put the kingdom in peril 363.  A king may not have too many horses in his stable 364.  Nor should he have too many wives around his table 365.  He should not amass gold, silver, more than the kingdom needs to run             These are the Mitzvos Lo Saaseh as many as the days of the sun             You must be careful to heed each and every one             Place you hope in Hashem and your reward will be a great sum

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