Halakhah zu Jeschijahu 29:11

But after I decided about this matter and began my efforts to write this book and mention all of the commandments plainly at the beginning of the book - according to their count - I was disturbed by a root issue that has been on my mind for many years. And that is that those that have listed the commandments have confused many matters, such that I cannot even recount the greatness of their disgrace. For all who begin to list them or to write a book that speaks about this intent are all drawn after the words of the author of the Halakhot Gedolot (Behag). And they all only differed from his approach a tiny bit in their counts, as if they were all frozen in front of this man's word. This is so much the case that I saw that the author of the famous Sefer HaMitzvot (of Rav Chefetz Gaon) noticed a small part of the confusion of the Behag and pushed away the counting - which the Behag had done - of visiting the sick and comforting the mourners; yet while what he pushed off was indeed off, he himself added things that were even further off. Moreover, he followed him in things that were worse, as will be clear to the one who studies our essay here. And God, may He blessed, knows, and His testimony is enough, that all that I have seen about their confusion - that they count things that one can see are not fit to be counted from the very first observation, and that they have followed each other without much observation - is a terrible misfortune to me. And to me, it has actualized the need for the [prophetic statement] to be fulfilled: "So that all prophecy has been to you like the words of a sealed document; if it is handed to one who can read and he is asked to read it, he will say, 'I can’t, because it is sealed'" (Isaiah 29:11).