Day #147–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today is day number 147 of our daily study of ramse and in the three chapters a day of mishna Taylor we are finishing the laws of this radical year and the entire safarium the book of seeds the agricultural Mitzvahs and we'll we'll be starting a new safer which we'll speak about uh God willing momentarily okay let's do the Mitzvahs for today negative commandment 169 is the prohibition against the tribe of Levy having a portion in the land tribe of Levy does not have a portion in the land remember we learned about how they are supported by The Miser by the tithes yeah well that's because they don't have their own agriculture so they're supported by the tithe of the agriculture of the other tribes so they're they don't possess an ancestral land within the holy land and it's a Prohibition for them to do so that's negative commandment 169. negative commandment 170. a related Mitzvah a Prohibition against the levium the members of the tribe of Levy from partaking in The Spoils of War when you go out to war so there is plunder there's spoils they do not take part in that they don't uh get a portion of that positive commandment again remember they're supported by the agricultural Tides positive commandment 183. now we said they don't have land but they kind of do because they have cities these are called the levite cities an interesting side point we have not learned about Cities of Refuge yet we will later God willing but there's something called Cities of Refuge where people flee if they God forbid if they committed a a murder and they go to the City of Refuge we'll talk about the details but I don't want to get into that right now but anyway all of the levite Cities function as Cities of Refuge interesting information Okay negative commandment 228. is switching the the functions of the levite Cities zones there are very specific zoning rules regulations for these levite cities the cities that the the the levium or the members of the tribe of Levy dwell in consist of one part that is an actual City then around that there's an open area of a thousand almost or qubits Cubit is about a foot and a half to all directions so about 1500 feet and then fields around the open areas for two thousand feet I mean two thousand almost or cubits which is about three thousand feet in all directions and the levium are not allowed to switch these areas they're not allowed to make the space that's allowed it for the allotted for the city into an open area or the open area into a city or a field into an open area or an open area into a field everything has to be to be constructed according to Zone okay this brings us to the end of say first mazel tov we're now beginning the next safer you know the safer after Israel I taught you the song remember the song say foreign foreign who taught me that song um yes Aveda Aveda means work but uh specifically what we mean is the avoida in the base the service in the Holy Temple positive commandment number 20. and this corresponds to laws of the chosen house which means the Holy Temple in Jerusalem positive commitment number 20 is building a temple a sanctuary Hashem says build me a physical structure a sanctuary which refers to the uh the Tabernacle meaning the temporary sanctuaries that existed in the desert with uh Moses for 40 years as well as subsequent temporary structures such as Michigan shilai you know the Tabernacle in Shiloh which is famous because it's mentioned in the first the day the half tour of the first ever Channel story about Kana and other Tabernacles but then ultimately in Jerusalem the permanent Eternal capital of the Jewish people the house built by King Solomon which was destroyed rebuilt and then destroyed again and will be rebuilt on the same spot again God willing very very soon so that's positive commandment number 20 is to build that house according to all of its very specific stipulations with all of its various different vessels and this building of the mikdosh or Temple is one of the three mitzvahs that the Jewish people were commanded upon entering the land the other two being to Crown a king and to annihilate a Malik those are the three Mitzvahs when we entered the land okay those uh those are Mitzvahs today we're going to continue with more space tomorrow God willing Mazel tovagana and finishing safer's