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Day #41–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos
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today is day number 41 of our daily
study of ramam Safar mitzvahs this
corresponds to the study of chapters 12
13 and 14 in Shabbos in the three
chapters three chapters
and today's rambam study is a very
special day
um we've brought up
many times already that help us to
understand the day's rambam and we're
going to do that God willing today as
well but it hasn't added special
significance which I will uh God willing
to explain to you momentarily but first
let's
um present today's Mitzvah we're still
in Hoka Shabbos the laws of Shabbos
observance
we've done two Shabbos related
Mitzvah so far we did the positive
commandment of tishvoice which means to
rest we did the negative commandment of
lesas do not do any productive creative
act
now we have a third Shabbos related
Mitzvah here we are let's present it
negative commandment 322
which is
do not Kindle Fire
do not Kindle Fire okay we'll get into a
discussion later about why does it say
specifically don't Kindle Fire when we
already were told there are 39 forms of
Labor
and um
kindling of fire is one of them so why
is this one singled out to be repeated
what God willing will talk about that
later because we have this Mitzvah again
tomorrow but what I want to share with
you something today because it's
pertinent to today and that is that in
the year tuftshin mem tests that's
1989 Huff bass that was the first yard
site of that that bespoke and in that
referenced that day's ramam study which
is today's ramam study you know that the
yearly cycle of daily rambam is not
exactly a year so it shifts throughout
the seasons so it doesn't always fall I
mean it it specifically doesn't fall on
the same dates I never did the
calculation how long it actually takes
how many years it takes to come around
full circle again and to line up again
but
intervention mem tests today's rambam
was which
in that year was the first yard site of
the Davidson
and the Rebecca
taught a teaching based on the first
halacha in the first chapter of the
three chapters of that day which
remember we said as chapters 12 13 and
14 of ilashabis so the beginning of
chapter 12 says
somebody who Kindles even the smallest
fire is obligated for violating Shabbos
The Who and that is the ramam gives us a
stipulation
he did it for the ashes he lit a fire
for the ashes
okay
and he explains what does that mean he
did it for the ashes that he didn't do
it with destructive intent
because in order for a malacha to be a
Malachi remember we explained yesterday
that malacha means a creative act a
productive act not a destructive act so
in order for it to be productive you
have to be trying to accomplish
something you have to be trying to make
something if you're just burning stuff
to destroy it that's
not the actual uh biblical labor
so what would be an example of a
productive fire now obviously if you're
lighting a fire for warmth or for light
then that that that itself is productive
but let's say he's he's burning stuff
and is it just to get rid of the stuff
and just to destroy it that's not the
biblical uh labor but if he's burning it
in order to make it into something that
he wants meaning he wants the ash
why does he want the ash I don't know
maybe he wants to make charcoal
toothpaste it's not really maybe he's
making a tint or a Dye that's that's not
important the important point is that in
order for it to be a malacha a
productive act and therefore biblically
forbidden Ang Shabbos it has to have
productive intent in which case it would
it would be he's trying to produce Ash
okay
so the dev explains something
just absolutely amazing
this is a lesson in life this is a
lesson in life
what's H what's fire inspiration passion
excitement
okay
when is passion productive
when does it actually have value
practical value in other words
inspiration comes inspiration goes when
does inspiration have value
when is it in other words
remember we defined as a productive act
something that actually accomplishes
something in this world
fire even a little fire
who has value it's a malacha it's
productive I know it's a confusing
concept because right now we're speaking
about Malacca in a positive way and
normally on Shabbos we think about a
malach and a negative light because it's
a transgression it's a violation of
Shabbos but think about it right now in
terms of the six other days when we are
trying to change the world and we are
trying to be productive so malacha is a
good thing during six out of the seven
days okay so when is fire meaning
passion excitement
productive one is it something that
actually accomplishes something in the
world when you need the ash
when you're trying to produce something
substantial from it
in other words he could have the fire
come and then after the fire
everything's gone
you had the EXP the experience of the
the the the the the passion the fire and
afterwards nothing changed
however if the fire comes through and at
the end it produces something even the
tiniest thing just so but but it's
something of substance something
physical like ash is physical in fact
Ash is
the only physicality that remains of
something after it's been consumed by
fire so it really represents the idea of
physical physicality
right the the they say that uh matter
and energy can either neither be created
nor destroyed the conservation of matter
and energy so what happens if you burn a
physical thing so it doesn't really get
destroyed really it just gets converted
the matter gets converted to energy and
that's where the flame comes from that
so the fire is but then there's a
certain amount of matter that remains
matter that's the ash the aethers the
the physicality which remains
physicality so it really represents
consummate physicality so here's here's
the vart here's the the teaching when is
age when is fire excitement a malacha a
productive thing when you want the ash
when you want something physical to come
from it so don't just let your
inspiration come and go you have to
convert it into something physical some
act something that you do with your body
and that ever connected this to the
entire
message of a yard site which is that the
soul of The Departed one is now on high
and reaching various levels of elevation
and which is obviously uh a great
pleasure for the soul but we who have
bodies and can still engage the physical
world have to create something physical
and so the inspiration that we gain from
The Souls particularly of the righteous
on high the fire in other words has to
be converted into something substantial
something physical go do something do an
act of goodness and kindness in this
physical world to make the physical
world a better place that's the teaching
it inspires me and uh uh uh but
inspiration you gotta turn into
something physical so go do a Mitzvah
right away do something
we'll see you tomorrow God willing