Day #83–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today is day number 83 of our daily study of rambam seifry mitsu's and this corresponds to in the three chapters a day of MRSA chapters 3 4 and 5. okay now yesterday we explained what ibum is and that was our myth for yesterday ibom is when a man dies childless his brother has a Mitzvah to marry the Widow and have children with her okay what if he doesn't want to do it then there is a mechanism and this is the only way out of it this has to be performed it is a ceremony but it's not just a ceremony it actually is the legal mechanism through which the parties are released from the obligation it's a Mitzvah to do even so how are they released from this so that they can both go their own way and that live their lives so this is today's Mitzvah positive commandment 217. positive commandment 217 is the Mitzvah of kalitza now khalitza literally means taking off the shoe why because part of the ceremony is that the woman removes a certain shoe a type of a shoe and it's a very specific type of shoe from the brother-in-law's foot and there are other aspects of this ceremony um which are very very specific and must be performed in an exact way which we won't go we won't get into but the point is this is the way that they are released from the obligation it should be mentioned it's important to mention that ibom is hardly if ever performed today it is considered the first choice to go straight to khalitza um even in talmudic times there was a discussion about depending on the motives of the brother-in-law whether ibom should be performed and certainly in the past Thousand Years where polygamy has been prohibited at least in ashkenaza communities it's been uh that has caused yibum to be an issue like let's say the brother who becomes obligated to do yibum is already married so it's not really possible for him to marry to do the mitzvahim and to marry his widowed sister-in-law so for for those reasons and other reasons today we just go straight to khalitza when it happens and it's very rare that all of the conditions for yubam are met so it's a it's a rare occurrence to to happen today but we do khalitza instead of evil today okay and that is today's Mitzvah we will see you tomorrow God willing