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There are only three mitzvot categories that we have to give up our life for rather than transgress: Murder, Forbidden Sexual Relationships and Idol Worship
The root mitzvah according to Hillel is "Not to do to others what you would not want done to you" and everything else is commentary (Shabbos 31a)
Chabkook the prophet narrowed all the mitzvot down to Belief in G-d (Makkos 24a). The foundation for everything else
Every morning after the Blessing on the Torah we recite from the mishnah that Torah Study is equal to all of the mitzvot. This is because we will only perform the other mitzvot properly if we study them.
There are other mitzvot as well that in other ways have been equated to all of the other mitzvot such as Keeping the Sabbath Day, Circumcision, Loshon Hara, etc.
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