Day #106–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today's day number 106 of Our Daily Star with ambam save in a Mitzvahs we started a new book yesterday of the 14 books of mishna Torah for those who are studying the three chapters today and the subject of that book is all about commitments that one takes upon oneself that are not already obligated in Torah um so I wanna point out a difference between today's Mitzvah and yesterday's Mitzvah they're related but they're different obviously they're different because they're separate mixes so let's do today's Mitzvah then I want to contrast it with yesterday's Mitzvah today's Mitzvah negative commandment 62 is the prohibition against taking an oath in vain okay what is the difference between today's prohibition taking an oath in vain and yes to his prohibition which was what we called violating an oath here's the difference yesterday's prohibition was a person takes on an obligation which they realistically could do and then they don't do it they don't keep their word okay so that's that prohibition yesterday today's prohibition is when a person makes a proclamation that something is true however this is completely Superfluous and and unnecessary to use to use this strength of an oath by the way when would a person ever make an oath because Oaths are very serious in a court situation in a based in a rabbinical court so there will be times when a person would have an option to to swear or they would maybe even be obligated to to swear or to drop their claim um but at any rate normally we try to avoid swearing and um yesterday's prohibition was where a person swears that they're going to do or not do something that they realistically could do or not doing therefore they have to make sure to do the thing they swore to do today's prohibition is when somebody swears about something that doesn't need that type of backing for instance somebody swears about an obvious untruth something that's just not possible it can't be conversely if somebody would swear that something that's obviously true is true that that's like the opposite idea somebody says this piece of wood is gold so it's obviously not true but also if somebody says this piece of wood I swear this is wood this is also the opposite but it's the same prohibition and then very very interesting very interesting is what if a person swears to do something that is a violation of the Torah he swears I'm not going to put on fill in today or I am going to eat non-kosher food that is also called a schwa's shove an oath taken in vain why because no Jew can ever swear to violate Torah because at the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai we all collectively swore to uphold the entire Torah and now we cannot undo that so anytime a Jew will say that even if he uses the power of taking an oath to back him if he'll say he's not going to do it Taylor says or he's going to do what Taylor says not to do that is called swearing in vain because there's no way that that could ever be effective it's just completely disconnected from reality which is the theme of ashwashov something that just has has no basis in reality as opposed to yesterday's prohibition where the thing is realistic but he didn't follow through and do the realistic thing he said he was going to do or not do okay so that's the difference and we're going to have other types of uh similar prohibitions regarding what we say and the obligations that we take on through those words we'll see you again for more similar uh subject matter tomorrow God willing