Day #41–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

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