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Hmmm... I would say:

1. Belief in G-d.
2. Learning Torah.
3. Keeping the sabbath.
4. Honoring your parents and elders.
5. Remembering G-d (which includes Shma, Teffilin, Mezuzot and Tzitzit).

I always learned that the 10 Commandments are categories of mitzvot..

I found another "top 5" list as "Shabbat, Shema, Tefillin, Tzitzis, Mezuzot" ... but the site that one was on was a little weird. I can't describe why, but they had a lot of stuff in capital letters and things I didn't understand (topics, not language) about Mosiach coming, and I read some of their PDFs and they implied in one of them that women who get abused ask for it because they're not receptive enough to what their husbands want, and that's just way too ******** for me thanks.

Anyway, now that I'm done bashing some uber-conservative asshats in Israel somewhere. sweatdrop

But I definately have to keep believing in/fearing/loving God and learning Torah. Problem is I also want to definately keep keeping/remembering Shabbat too, and technically since each of those slashes is a different mitzvah that's already six. gonk

Everything else on this application wasn't hard!! scream

Don't worry. *patpat* Zonko's away at camp so he won't come in and stare you.

This is for an Orthodox program. xd It's called Ohel Sarah Imenu, for anyone wondering.. It's a women's learning center in Jerusalem that teaches women studying for Orthodox conversions.

If I can afford it I want to spend my winter intersession (6 weeks off classes between fall and spring semesters) there, to prepare for going to Neve Yerushalayim next summer, which will be more intensive. 3nodding

Just beacuse you don't know what the reward of a mitzva is, dones't mean there are not some mitzvot that are better than others. The reward we do know about mitzvot is the fact that it shapes and changes who we are. Besides that, there is the reward of the world to come, but that is unknown to us.

That's a good point xd . When Rabbi Akiva was challenged to explain all of the torah while standing on one foot, Rabbi Akiva replied: "to understand the main concept of judaism, love your fellow jew as you would love yourself. Now go learn the rest of it's laws and details". Ahavas yisroel, unconditional love, and compromising even what is most important to us.

I really dont think there are any "top 5" most important mitzvos, i think that is a reform point of view, ( i mean no disrespect my ppls) Comming from a ba'al Tsuva background, i was once conservitive and i remember being tought that some are more important then others, but alas, this is not true, All of htem are just as important as the rest.(im not saying i keep htem all but...comeone..there ARE 600 that i have to keep being a girl..) some are just obsalite, for lack of a better word, untill the third bas hamigdash is built. ((ooo askinazi...ooo)

True, but if you had to rank the mitzvot on a "level of preferance", there actually is a specific ranking to the level of preferance according to halaha. For example, if a person only had enough money to either buy a mezuza or teffilin, which should he buy? If he had only enough for a mezuza or an etrog? These kind of things were written in the gemmara and were expanded later by the rishonim and ahronim (and still are being expanded).