[roamer_1]

Well, the author does label that one specifically as halakhah. But that still leaves 612, except for the handful that Maimonides neglected altogether. I’ll have to dig those up later. So I’d need an app to keep track of 612 commands. Got anything else you can eliminate?

That would take forever... Better to go through the entire Torah on your own and discern for yourself. Although Karaite links might be helpful to you - Karaites are to Judaism what Protestantism is to the Roman church - I don't entirely agree with them either (they too are insular, which is faulty according to the design of Torah), but I think you will find much to chew on through them, and I think you are learned and open-minded enough to ponder... The Karaites reject Talmudic/Rabbinic tradition. So they are likely to be more on point wrt their interpretation of the commandments.

And another thing to bear in mind - all commandments are not for all people - Some are personal, some are national, some regard the priests, some are direct strictures, some are guides to good living... The things beyond your personal control are not yours to do.

It is a remarkable ruleset to govern nations, religion, health, welfare, war, relationships, contracts, and personal... etc. You leave me with the inference that it is all too much, but I would submit that it is quite concise compared to the laws of any other kingdom/nation you might compare it to.

[Springfield Reformer]

The things beyond your personal control are not yours to do.

Where is that in the law? Or is that a modification to the law that you or perhaps a rabbinical authority offered up to accommodate for the difficulty in actually complying?

Again, this is nothing personal to you. You're a decent chap to talk to. So don't take this the wrong way. But I'm an attorney (and a programmer - odd combo, I know). I work with contracts, among other things. And one of the basic principles of contract law is you can't hold somebody to a contract unless all the important terms and conditions are spelled out. By your refusal to elaborate on what constitutes the exact content of Torah, you are asking me to sign on to a contract where I don't know, and maybe can't ever know my obligations. You yourself said it would take forever to work through all the commands. So the very thing you're telling me I'm obligated to do, you won't tell me what it is. Or at least what you think it is. Why would any sane person sign on to a contract like that?

[Elsie]

Better to go through the entire Torah on your own and discern for yourself.

Judges 17:6 KJV

In those days there was no king in Israel,
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

[Elsie]

And another thing to bear in mind - all commandments are not for all people

Some folks seem to either forget; or never knew; this fact.