Day #28–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 28 of our daily study that I'm saying in our three chapters a day of mishna Torah we are still in the laws of philan the fill in part we've covered because a couple days ago we did the head villain and then yesterday we did the armed villain so now we're moving on to uh new subjects Within These related subjects and here we go I'll introduce it properly positive commandment number 15. is the Commandment to affix the mezuzah what we call a mezuzah to the doorpost and this actually means the doorpost but when we say miss those we don't mean the doorpost we mean this parchment that is affixed to the doorpost that is the Mitzvah uh you should write them al-mazuze upon the doorposts of your house and your Gates and uh is important to note that the Mitzvah is not just how to properly prepare the the parchment but also where to affix it how to affix it and all of those laws are uh included in the mishna Torah and of course on uh just a very practical level remember to get your mezuz is checked um our customers to do it even more frequently than is holocaately required we try to do it every allyl at the end of the the Jewish year as a preparation going into the new year the second Mitzvah today now moving out of mezuzah into what do you think it is right these are the laws of in the three chapters of David mission is the laws of villain and safer Tita okay so we just said mezuzah where are we now you guessed it positive commandment number 18. the Mitzvah to write a personal Torah scroll every Jewish male is obligated to write or to acquire a complete Taurus girl for himself why do we not see people doing this why doesn't everyone have a personal Taurus girl this is actually the question that the Reba asks in a sea cup it is the second actually tells the story and moisture Romano's last day of his life in this world when he gave this commandment to write the Taurus girl that ever asked this question why don't we see people doing this and in fact why don't we see that it was done when Maisha Rabino gave the Commandment so I want to encourage you to to learn the original but I'll tell you in a very very very small nutshell that have his answer and that is that actually a communal safer Torah especially the way that we use Taurus Scrolls today we don't use them for studying we use them for communal Torah readings the communal safer Torah accomplishes this mitzvah and particularly when one gives funds to buy a ladder in a safer title and therefore the dev is strongly encouraged that everyone should participate in a communal safritorah this is an addition to a big push that ebba gave regarding the children's safer total that's a separate issue but related issue but that there is the concept of buying a letter in a safer Toyota and thereby actively participating in the writing of a safer Torah and that ever says not only is that like okay after the fact yeah I guess it counts but actually if you learn this says that seems to be the way that they did it in my should have been was time it was a communal safer total so that is the way that we do the Mitzvah and uh on a practical level since I mentioned checking your measures I'll give you another practical tip if you don't have a letter in a safer Torah take care of that okay God willing we will see you tomorrow