Day #82–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today is day number 82 of our daily study of rambam's severe mitzvahs in the three chapters a day of mishna Twitter we are finishing hillcration and beginning the next set of halachas which I'll tell you what that is God willing in a few moments but first let's learn a Mitzvah uh that corresponds to the laws of divorce Garrison and that is negative commandment 356 you may recognize this because we learned it for the past two days this is the third day we're studying this Mitzvah negative commandment 356. I'll share with you something about this Mitzvah that I didn't tell you the past two days trying to add something new every day um this may be a no-brainer for some but it uh does deserve to be stated clearly this prohibition not to remarry one's ex-wife if she has been married to someone else in the interim we mentioned yesterday that if she hasn't been married to someone else then it's permissible according to the rambam it's implied it's permissible according to other authorities uh most notably it's actually even preferable to remarry however when is that stated if the husband or the ex-husband is not a kohen is not of the Priestly class because must not marry a divorced woman it's a Prohibition so that includes even his own ex-wife who divorces his wife is not allowed to remarry his ex-wife even if she has not remarried anybody else in the interim okay so that is that Mitzvah and now we're starting two words that are really tough to translate into English ibom is generally translated as leveright marriage but I don't know how helpful that is that's sort of like translating villainous phylacteries if you don't know what ibom is do you know what level right marriage is so it's better to just subscribe what it actually is and then we'll use the word ibum and then what's kalitza Khalid says when you don't want to do ibum okay fine so let's let's talk about that positive commandment 216 is the Mitzvah of ibum or levorite marriage okay um the Mitzvah is that the brother of a married man who dies childless is commanded the brother the surviving brother is commanded to marry his widowed sister-in-law meaning the Widow of his late brother who died childless and thereby to bring children into the world which would be ascribed to his late Brothers lineage that is ibum okay um because we're going to be studying this mitzvah for uh a couple of days I will describe more of this God willing in the in the coming lessons we'll see you again tomorrow