Day #188–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 188 of our daily study of RA and in the three chapters of day study track of M we are still in h means inadvertent sins uh specifically chapters 6 seven and8 of those now you know how we learn sazus uh we we don't go in the order of the 613 Commandments as they are listed in sa Mitzvah what we do is we look at what's being studied currently the three chapters of Misha right Misha is also by the ram it's a much longer work it's a much more detailed work it's 14 books Al together um what we do is we go according to what's being studied in the three chapters a day study track of Misha that's three chapters a day in order to finish the entire Misha in a year a little a little bit less than a year so as such what'll happen is depending on the chapters that are being studied in the three chapters of day of Misha sometimes we'll have a lot of Mitzvah to study in a day sometimes we'll have less Mitzvah to study in a day and sometimes even you'll have a section where there are many many chapters so we're studying it for many many days in the three chapters of but that section of H is only based on a few Mitzvah so what ends up happening is we'll repeat some of those mitzvah for more than one day and that's what's happening today this has happened before it's happening again right now so we have a repeat right now um positive commandment 70 which is the asham tooy the call it doubtful guilt offering and I'll explain again what that is um we said the archetypical scenario is that somebody has in front of them two pieces of meat schum and K permissible meat and forbidden meat he ate one and not the other but but he doesn't know which one he ate so he may have done a sin he may not have in that case he brings an a uh why doesn't he just bring AAS just in case it doesn't work that way AAS can only be brought when somebody knows for sure he did the sin now I just want to clarify that by the way you're going to say hold on I thought this whole section is called shus inadvertent sins then how could he know that he did it if it's inadvertent okay that's that's what I want to explain if a person does a sin B it God forbid he intentionally does it he cannot bring AAS katas does not atone sin offering does not atone for a purposeful sin it's only for an inadvertent sin B that's that word sh or the plural okay so what does it mean he knows after the fact he knows after the fact after the fact somebody says to him hey you can't do that he says I can't oh no and he brings AAS okay so he knows he did a sin he just didn't realize at the time that he was doing a sin that's what it means sh the ash is that he cannot for sure ascertain whether or not he did the sin now as we explained yesterday if later on there will be some forensic evidence presented where they can reconstruct the crime scene so to speak and say no no no for sure you did do it then he'll bring AAS and the ash that he already brought does not cover the fact that he is now obligated to bring the katas now that he knows for sure that he did it uh I didn't read this yesterday I'll read it today the verse that this comes from this idea of the ash is from VRA The Book of Leviticus chapter 5 verse 17 it says if there is a person uses the word neish which means a Soul it means here a person who sins he does one of the Mitzvah that he's not supposed to do meaning he transgresses and he doesn't know and he's guilty he should bear his transgression so he doesn't know that's what that is talking about this is what our sages refer to as it's not known to him what's not known to him it's not known to him whether or not indeed a sin was transgressed okay all right we're going to continue uh with and Mitzvah that are related to that subject tomorrow God willing