Day #209–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 209 of our daily study of RA and in the three chapters a day of M we're continuing h t the impurity that is contracted by one who has the skin condition known as Tas we are we're on chapters 5 six and seven and our Mitzvah today is a positive commandment positive 112 and that is that a person who has Tas do you know the word for a person who has tras we used it yesterday right MIT a MIT has to do certain things that distinguish very clearly that he or she is indeed a Mata remember we spoke about the idea of the quarantine of the Mata yesterday so there there are a bunch of indicators and this is all part of setting the Mata apart from society that's all part of this uh process his garments have to be torn like God forbid a mourner someone who's grieving tears their garments um he he cannot cut his hair also similar to a mourner and SAS is considered a partial death uh and he has to cover himself to his lips with like a a cloak a hood a Talus that goes down over his face sort of um and he has to call out Tom Tom unclean unclean like don't get near me warning warning danger stay away from me I'm not not okay um and that's even though he's sitting outside of the camp but even so he has to warn people to stay away from him that's all part of the process of his ultimately of his tashas to undergo the isolation I don't normally do this but I'll share with you a reasoning that has to do with more of the psychological or emotional component of the Mitzvah one of the causes for somebody Contracting Tas is that they spoke Lush andara which of course ruins relationships and causes people to become separate from each other so measure for measure part of his tshua process is that he becomes isolated and through that he ultimately gains atonement and then is able to become reinstated reincluded in society the point is that when he comes back he should come back with a greater sensitivity okay that is the mitzvah for today we will see you for more God willing tomorrow