Day #275–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 275 of our daily study of and in the three chapters day study track of M we're continuing those are laws of taking ownership over either something that's ownerless or something where the previous owner gives it as a gift uh chapters 78 and n as I mentioned there are no specific Mitzvah that correspond to this subject matter um or more accur Ely I should say there are no new Mitzvah to study that correspond to this subject matter uh somebody asked a question in the comments we WE Post these classes on many platforms to make it as easy as possible to follow every day but I believe it was a comment in the YouTube um video where someone said how is that possible that the Torah has no specific Mitzvah regarding how to transfer ownership regarding ownerless things or in the case of a gift and I just want to explain that the miona deals with the entirety of Jewish law and therefore there are many subjects that the missioner will deal with that are not elaborations on biblical Commandments but rather on Rabbi enactments and you know back in saers manum in the book of holidays we had the laws of haneka and porm right that that's entirely rinic and then even in Mitzvah that we study that are biblical but we study the rabbinic safeguards that are placed upon it like when we well when we learned about uh meat and milk right so the actual biblical prohibition is meat and milk but we learned that the rabbis uh prohibit even chicken and milk and so on and so forth so just remember that there are a lot of Halas that really originate in the rinic legislations and especially in this present book that we're in safer Kenyon the book of Acquisitions there are a lot of laws that our sages enacted in order to keep Commerce running in a in a fair way but in a way that would keep the economy vibrant and uh they're not direct mitzvas from the 613 Mitzvah if you want to trace it to which Mitzvah it has some sort of An Origin within so then it would be the Mitzvah that we're studying today which is let's do it positive 245 which is really in its original scriptural context the Mitzvah of selling where there's buying and selling something was purchased for money but those rules for how to transfer ownership can be applied to other ways of transferring ownership which is precisely what we're studying right now we're talking about things that there's no buyer and seller there there's either um no present owner of the property or the present owner is transferring it as a gift not an exchange for anything or at least nothing tangible okay so I hope that explains what's happening today and we have one more day of this we're we're going to be repeating positive commandment 245 and I have a heads up for you by the way um as we go through safer Kenyon the book of Acquisitions we're going to actually repeat this Mitzvah positive command 245 at least a few more times I didn't count but we we'll have it tomorrow and then we'll learn some other Mitzvah and then I think when we come to the laws of neighbors I think we have this Mitzvah again and each time we learn it God willing I'll try to add some insight okay we'll see you tomorrow God willing for more