Day #151–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 151 of our daily study of ramam save and in the three chapters a day of mishna Twitter we are in here the utensils of the Holy Temple chapters three four and five and our Mitzvahs today are negative commandment 85 the prohibition against replicating the incense remember yesterday we had a probation against you remember replicating the anointing oil that's right so this is a separate Mitzvah a negative prohibition against replicating the incense the incense was burnt daily in the temple on a special Altar for incense called the incense altar or the golden altar no I was called the incense altar because they burn incense on it you know I was called the Golden altar because it was made of gold very good Okay negative commandment 82. offering sacrifices on the golden altar okay now a little comprehension the golden altar is the same as the incense altar so what was offered on the golden altar slash incense alter what do you think what was offered on it incense right exactly correct uh what if someone wanted to bring a sacrifice meaning an animal offering on the golden altar or otherwise known as the incense altar no you're not allowed to do that it's an altar it's in the temple but it's not for animal sacrifices there's a big Altar for animal sacrifices out in the temple Courtyard it's called The Copper altar and it's made for animal sacrifices but it's prohibited to put animal sacrifices on the golden altar you only put incense on the golden altar positive commandment 34. is the Mitzvah of how to transport the holy Ark the uran which was the uh vessel which contained the stone tablets which Maisha brought from Sinai this proper transportation of the Holy Ark was that it was to be carried on the shoulders of the kohanim originally the levium were entrusted with this task but that was only during the sojourns in the wilderness when the population of kohana was very small remember started off with just Aaron and His Four sons and two of those sons died early on in the 40 years and then Pinterest became a coin but as there were more kohanim then it became the task of the kohana negative commandment 86 the prohibition against removing the staves the polls from the rings of the Ark there are little rings on the ark and there's poles that go in them that's how the kohanim or before them to leave him would carry the Ark on their shoulders with these long poles we go through the rings on the ark and then they would carry those poles on their shoulders okay those are our Mitzvahs today we will see you for more uh based on migdush related mitzvah's tomorrow God willing