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The number of Torah commandments that are obligatory for all generations is 613: 248 of them are positive commandments, whose mnemonic is the number of parts in the human body; 365 of them are negative commandments, whose mnemonic is the number of days in the solar year.

—Maimonides, from the introduction to the Mishneh Torah (as translated by Mechon Mamre)