Day #33–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it's day number 33 of our daily study of Raman Safar mitzvah and as mentioned uh the past couple of days we're in the laws of blessings and there's only one biblical commandment which corresponds to these laws so I'm going to say it again as we've said it for the past couple of days positive commandment number 19 the grace after meals okay now I want to tell you something very interesting that we encounter in today's three chapters of mishna Torah which are chapters seven eight and nine chapter seven is all about the protocol the etiquette that one is supposed to follow during a meal various different laws about how to properly partake in a meal one of the things that Alma mentions is that you're supposed to uh preferably uh make the blessing on a full loaf of bread not a broken or sliced loaf but a full Loaf a shlema a complete intact Loaf and that on Shabbos and yamtif you should have a double loaf two loaves and um that's in halacha 4. so chapter 7 of the laws of blessings there is a question we know that album is exceedingly precise not only in what he says but where he says it we find that this law that one should have lachem mishnah a double loaf on Shabbos and yamtov is in two different places in rambam one of those places is the aforementioned chapter 7 halacha four but the Rama mentions it later in the laws of Shabbos specifically Chapter 30 9. so the rabba asks this question how come the ramam tells us this again in the laws of Shabbos when we already know about the double loaves from the laws of blessings so I'm going to very very succinctly convey to you just one point just one of the many points made in this and it just shows us the depth of everything that the rambam does and how he orders things and organizes it so meticulously there's of course a difference and a significance in the way that the rambam places this detail in the laws of blessings as opposed to in the laws of Shabbos what is the difference a a practice not the difference but a difference a practical difference I will tell you in the laws of Shabbos let's first speak about the laws of Chavez it's speaking about how to properly observe a Shabbos meal and how do you proper because it's talking about Chavez the loss of shops and how do you properly observe a Shabbos meal you have La hamishna double loaves okay and that's what it's speaking about there in the laws of Shabbos however in the laws of blessings it's not talking about Shabbos it's talking about how to have a meal and when you have a meal ideally you have a shame a full intact love and if it's a Shabbos or yamative meal then it's double loaves therefore even if on Shabbos you're having a meal which goes beyond the three meals there are three meals on Shabbos meaning let's say you want to have four five six meals I don't know you just feel like washing and benching a bunch of times would you then need lackamishna at each and every one of these extra meals well from the laws of Shabbos we wouldn't know that we would only know that it's needed when you're observing one of the three official Shabbos meals but in the laws of blessings it's telling us something different that if you have a meal on Shabbos as many meals as you want to have the way to properly have a meal just like you make the blessing on an intact loaf on a regular day so you have to make a blessing on double Loaves on a Shabbos meal and that would apply as many meals as you want to have that's just one practical difference that emerges from the placement of this same seemingly same detail in two different places in the ramam and it gives us a glimpse into the incredible depth and the the meticulous care with which every detail was placed in the rambam we'll see you tomorrow God willing for more of the laws of blessings and we're gonna have a new Mitzvah because it's gonna overlap we're gonna finish uh chapters 10 and 11 of the laws of blessings and we're going to start something new uh you'll see what it is tomorrow God willing see you there