Day #183–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 183 of our daily study of RA in the three chapters of day of M we are finishing you're going to say hold on how are we finishing we just started it yesterday when we finished that's true but only has three chapters so we did one chapter yesterday and now we're doing chapters two and three today and then when we finish that we're going to go into firstborn firstborn animals remember remember the theme of this book is carbon's animal sacrifices okay so let's do our Mitzvah today positive commandment 54 is rejoicing on the festivals rejoicing on the festivals now rejoicing on the festivals means a lot of things that we can relate to like uh eating meat and drinking wine uh wearing new clothing buying gifts for one's family but primarily the biblical commandment is a Corbin A an an animal offering now if you're keeping track if you're uh keeping count this is the third animal sacrifice that we've spoken about in conjunction with the festivals because remember yesterday we spoke about theas the elevation offering that you make just by showing up when you show up at the pilgrimage Festival in Jerusalem so you're supposed to bring an elevation offering uh we spoke about yesterday the haiga the festival offering and now this is another offering a third offering which is the Simka offering which is a schlim offering which we've spoken about uh before in the previous safer of a we spoke about schlim offerings and there's a certain Sim to that because schlam offerings are eaten not just by the Kain but also by the owner who brought the sacrifice so you're getting to celebrate and eat some meat um so that's positive commandment 54 negative commandment 156 is sort of a corollary to a Mitzvah that we learned yesterday and remember remember we said that when you show up in Jerusalem for the pilgrimage Festival you should bring your coronus so here's the negative commandment not to the prohibition not to show up empty-handed and in order to not transgress one has to at least bring the aforementioned oasa Anda those two sacrifices and of course also there's that third Corbin we just mentioned a minute ago the uh the schlim Okay negative commandment 29 is not to forget about the Ley when you celebrate Anum you have to make sure to include him remember uh we had the back in saer roim the book of agricultural laws we had that whole thing about about h m about the the tithes and remember we give those agricultural gifts to the Levan because they don't have their own land for farming so they're very much dependent on us so there's a specific prohibition when you celebrate do not forget to include the Ley in your celebration I should also mention our first commandment that we learned today which was to rejoice in the festivals it also mentions the Ley as well as some other people who it's very important to remember when we are celebrating it says Rejoice on your Festival you your son and your daughter okay yeah that makes sense and your servant and your maid servant okay they're part of the household V the levite doesn't have his own land to farm the convert the orphan and the Widow who are in your Gates um these are people who are often overlooked or excluded God forbid and so in order to properly Rejoice you can't just Rejoice with you and your household but you have to include these people and make sure they are not God forbid left out next at the end of the ra talks about the Mitzvah of hakel so let's do that positive commandment 16 is hakel hakel means to gather or the Gathering a massive Gathering it is the entire Jewish people once in seven years on the second day of sukus on uh in the in in the first year of the sabatical cycle remember when we learned when we learned about the sabatical seven-year cycle so this is in the eth year meaning the first year of the new cycle on the second day of sucus they would gather the entire Jewish Nation men women and children in Jerusalem and the king would read from a Torah scroll and the intention was to have an experience that would give somebody a feeling of what it was like to stand in awe with the entire United Jewish Nation at the time of the giving of the Torah at sin okay positive commandment 79 now we're transitioning to the laws of the firstborn firstborn animals kosher animals livestock and the law is that when the first Offspring of the of that mother so that animal becomes automatically Sanctified automatically Sanctified and uh set aside as a carbon which is then brought to the Coen the coin has to sprinkle the blood on the Altar and burn the fats but then the coin eats from the flesh uh it's important to know that this Mitzvah actually although we can only bring the sacrifice when the temple is standing and even when the temple was standing it was only done when the animals born in the land of Israel but the Mitzvah still stands even though you can't bring it as a sacrifice um even outside of the land of Israel and even after the temple is not currently standing which means and we don't really encounter this in our lives but when Jews were more or more Jews had agrarian Lifestyles you would sometimes see a walking around uh not being uh tended because it's not your personal property it's sacred and you're not allowed to get any benefit from it and you can't Shear it or anything so in the you'd have sometimes have these uh firstborn animals kind of wandering around it was like a part of life okay those are our Mitzvah today we will see you for more God willing tomorrow