Day #7–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

Hashem were on day number seven of our daily study of the ramam safer Mitzvahs that's very exciting because it means we are finishing now our first full week of the new cycle as mentioned the Mitzvahs we study in favor Mitzvahs do not go in order of the safer Mitzvahs they rather are chosen to correspond to whatever the subject matter is being studied in the daily study of three chapters a day of mishna Torah and over there in that study track we are still in the laws of the foundations of Toyota these are basic foundational principles of Theology and belief and uh accordingly we have Mitzvahs of that type to study today we have three Mitzvahs okay let's jump in negative Mitzvah number 63. this is actually the flip side of amitzvah that we learned yesterday yesterday we learned the positive version of it which was the positive commandment to make a kid the shashem to sanctify God's name now we have the prohibition not to make a hill Hashem not to desecrate hashem's name and that I'm actually breaks this Mitzvah down into three aspects one is basically the corollary to what we learned yesterday that one is commanded to give one's life rather than to renounce God or to commit uh any of the three cardinal sins of uh so then which are um idol worship and murder and immoral intimate Acts so that that's the prohibition of uh Hashem in in its first aspect then there's another aspect of the prohibition of which is when somebody commits a sin not because of Any uh benefit or enjoyment but rather purely to make a statement of spite against God that is called and that's the second category of hello sham and then the third category of Coalition actually only applies to certain people and that is when a Torah scholar um does something that is Unbecoming maybe for a normal person it wouldn't be a problem but for a Torah scholar it causes people to be suspicious and thereby indirectly it sort of casts aspersions on the value of of Toyota and uh and Yiddish kite and God forbid it's uh it's not good it's not good PR for Hashem so it's called the hello Shem one of the classic examples of this is discussed in the gemara and Yuma where RAV says for instance if I will go to the Butcher and I will pay on credit meaning I don't pay cash for my transaction I just let the butcher write my name down and collect the bill later that's a hill Hashem because people don't know that I'm gonna pay him later they just think that I'm using my uh status as a rabbi to get free meat from from the butcher that's a hill Hashem so that's uh that applies to Torah Scholars and other similar people who who are thought of by the masses to represent Hashem and perhaps we can say that in this day and age any discernably visibly observant Jew uh also may fit into that category just a thought okay the second myth for today negative prohibition 65 the prohibition against destroying a place of worship now that comes from the prohibition against destroying the base of mikdush in its original context we're told to destroy the idolatrous altars of the Canaanites when we enter the land and then the verse juxtaposes that with saying but do not destroy the Holy place of Hashem so there's a there's a Prohibition against destroying uh the best or the mikdus the small sanctuaries of uh shuls places where Jews worship now a question that's asked by the debit um there's a principle known asro that Hashem gives over his laws to his people meaning what what is his laws the laws that he himself follows so if Hashem tells us to do something it means he himself keeps that Mitzvah as well well if we're told not to destroy a place of worship uh Hashem destroyed the base of mikdus so how how is Hashem permitted to destroy the Holy Temple and not only once but twice so the rabbit actually asks and answers this question I recommend people to take a look at the full circuits before Tish above and the rabbit there explains that if you look in the mission of Torah where this Mitzvah is explained more in detail it says I'll just read to you from which we actually studied yesterday it says a person who removes even one stone from the altar the temple building or the temple Courtyard with a destructive intent is liable for Lashes and there ever makes a deal care a precise observation that the rambam uses this term with destructive intent in other words what if somebody's doing demolition in order to renovate would that be the prohibition like sometimes when you're doing home improvements you have to knock down a wall to rebuild it so the answer is if you're in the process of building something better can't just be the same but better then yeah you're allowed to take things apart in order to make it better and that's the answer that when Hashem destroyed the first and second Holy Temple it was only a process to bring us to the Third Temple which will be greater and will be eternal all right the third Mitzvah of today a positive commandment number 172 and that is to listen to a prophet uh we're commanded to listen to the instructions of a prophet a navi as long as he doesn't tell us to abolish a Mitzvah of the Torah but even there there's an exception if it's temporary for instance the classic example ilio Elijah the prophet at har Carmel on Mount Carmel in in Haifa where he instructed we organized a competition with the Nivea Bal with the false prophets of the Baal Idol and said you bring your sacrifices on your altar we'll bring our sacrifices on on our Altar and you're not really allowed to bring a sacrifice on an altar outside of the Holy Temple we're going to learn about that Mitzvah later but it was a temporary measure in order to make a public and very clear rejection of the idol worshipers so in that case it was permissible so again we must listen to a prophet unless he is trying to abolish anything that Taylor says however if he says to do it only temporarily uh then it is okay okay those are the misses today we'll see you tomorrow