Day #30–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

and in the three chapters a day of mishna Torah we are starting and finishing a whole section of halacha because it's just three chapters so it fits nicely into just one day in the three chapters a day study track and that is the laws of tits what's it says how do you translate I mean you translate as fringes sometimes but it's a really hard word to translate this really nothing like it in English it's a very specific concept very specific to the Mitzvah so um here we go let's introduce this mitzvahn it's just one Mitzvah today that corresponds to the laws of and uh here it is positive commandment number 14. the Mitzvah of tsitis all males are required to have these fringes on the four corners of their four cornered garments and we say this every day in the Schmutz the last paragraph of Shema where we say uh speak to the Jewish people and tell them tell them to make these sitzus these fringes on the corners of their garments and it goes on and says and they shall affix a thread of trellis I'll translate that as a shade of blue that's made from a very specific dye that I must fix all about this in Mission they should make a thread of this bluish hue also part of the the tits is fringes now let's talk about that for a second here um that sitsis and the trellis so um we don't have the proper trailers today and I'm not going to get in a whole discussion about it about whether it has been identified or not identified I actually heard that the Frida karabe the rabbits said clearly when asked that the hilozan fish will not be discovered until mashiach so um I I won't get into that discussion now but the point is most authorities agree we don't have that trailers that blue dye so here's the question can we do the Mitzvah cities without the trellis can we do the fringes without the blue thread and um the answer is yes obviously you see that you can do it but now you're going to ask another question a very intelligent question based on something we learned several days ago remember when we learned the laws of or we learned the Mitzvahs that correspond to the laws of to fill in and we've spent two days learning filling because we learned the head fill in on one day and then the hand filling on the other day and I told you that according to the gemore that they're two separate Mitzvahs and it even discusses it there what if somebody only has one or the other should they wait until they have both or if they have to should they just go and do the one Mitzvah which is better than doing no Mitzvah and we said that the our sages Clearly say look obviously it's ideal to do both the head and the hand but each one is its own Mitzvah and if you can only do one by all means do the one that you can do okay so maybe it's something like that maybe I'm talking about what cities maybe the tits is in the trailers is the same type of deal maybe it's two different Mitzvahs and it's nice to do both Mitzvahs but if you can't you do the one that is not correct no no not correct um how do I know because as Adam explained and say for Mitzvahs that the sifri which is a early midrashic work actually has this discussion and this is free says very clearly one might think that there are two Mitzvahs the fringes and then the blue thread but actually that is not correct it is all one Mitzvah one Mitzvah and that two however this aspect of having the trellis is not ma'akev it doesn't prevent one from performing the Mitzvah so the blue thread is part and parcel of the Mitzvah but it's not an aspect which prevents the Mitzvah from being performed in the event that one doesn't have it so that is I hope hopefully clarification regarding that and and that's uh that's it I told you it's three chapters long so tomorrow we're going to be starting a new section of halachas in three chapters today I'm going to have some new Mitzvahs to learn in our daily studies say from it says we'll see you tomorrow God willing