Day #204–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 204 of our daily study of and in the three chapters of day of mish We are continuing par the laws of the red heer chapters 5 six and seven our Mitzvah today is the same as yesterday positive commandment 113 the Mitzvah to prepare the ashes of the red heer since we're repeating the same Mitzvah I'll add some insight that we uh haven't learned yet about this Mitzvah this is actually connected to something that's written in yesterday's chapters of Misha uh specifically in chapter 3 at the very end of chapter three the context is that am is explained that when we prepare the ashes we mix with it remnants of all previous batches and then the mentions how many batches there were historically the first one was prepared by maeno our teacher Moses and the second by by Ezra in the second temple period and then he goes through the various different ones and he lists nine and then he mentions the 10th uh Horus the 10th he says yasia will be made by mhia the Messianic King which is something that am deals with at the very end of mish who is mhia who's eligible to be mesiah what how do we know Messiah is here ramam deals with everything in Jewish law so he deals with Messiah it's a whole section the last section is the culmination the climax of the entire miona but that's not the subject here okay we're talking about red heer but because we're mentioning all the historical batches of the red heer so that I'm mentions the 10th one yhia will be made by the king mesiah and then the N adds a few words which it almost seems seems like he's blurting out like he can't help himself he says may he be speedily revealed may that be God's will so the actually asks about this and says look mishna is a safer it's practical Guidance the is not telling us every interesting thing about every topic that comes up that amam was a master in all areas of Jewish scholar ship and wrote all types of different books but Mish is a book of practical guidance so and he's very very precise in his language there's an economy of language so why is he suddenly seemingly blurting out these extra words of may he be speedily revealed may that be God's will the de says like this you're asking why is the amam adding these words seemingly he can't help himself he's blurting out these extra words the amam knows exactly what he's doing he's teaching us here a Hal as well the Hala he's teaching us is that when a Jew mentions mssiah he can't help but to pray and to express his hope that mesiah will be here speedily now you're going to say okay fine but then why didn't theam do that in the laws of mesiah remember I mentioned a couple minutes ago there there is a whole section where that Adam teaches the laws of Messiah so the rebba says that's the whole point the whole point is that even when mhia comes up in a discussion and Messiah is not the main point of the discussion like here Messiah is not the main point of the discussion there are laws of Messiah at the end of mish right now we're in the book of Tara we're P of ritual Purity we're talking about the red heer red heer is our subject M just came up as a side point but that's the whole point that says the that is teaching us is that when Messiah comes up even as a side point in a conversation that we stop and with the slightest provocation so to speak we we cannot help but to express our fervent hope and our belief that Messiah will be here and that itself is the Fulfillment of the expectation of messiah's coming which the talks about in the laws of Messiah that a Jew has to believe that Messiah can come at any time and this is a case in point an illustration of what that actually looks like mhia is brought up as a side topic it's not even the main topic of discussion and we stop we express our heartfelt desire and our hope and our expectation that it will happen very very speedily and then we can move on it's an incredible Insight okay um we will see you tomorrow for more learning God willing