Day #8–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it's day number eight of our daily study of the rambams safer Mitzvahs uh it's a special day in the three chapters a day of mishna Torah track because we're making our first see him on a set of halachas we're finishing those are basic theological foundations of Jewish belief and we're starting the laws of temperament or of personal character development and you're gonna see in our study of the daily safe remits was you'll see how we shift the types of Mitchells that we're learning when we go from we transition from the Mitzvahs corresponding to hocus which are more theological and hilcus uh Deus which are more about uh personal character development so um and I'll point that out to you when that when that shift happens so let's start with where four minutes was today negative commandment number 64. a Prohibition now this prohibition is the flip side of a positive Commandment that we had yesterday yesterday we had a positive commandment to listen to a bona fide prophet and how do we establish a bonified profit for that you have to study Mission toad it tells us tells us the criteria over there but the negative prohibition which is the first minutes we're studying today negative prohibition number 64 is the prohibition against testing a profit after he's been established as uh as verified so uh it's interesting because the the Toyota actually the verse there says don't test Hashem but it's understood to mean do not test the profit sent by Hashem do not test hashem's profit all right now watch the transition because that was really the end of mits was the correspond to Hill Casino which are basic tenets of belief now we're switching to helges Deus which again I said is uh personal character development or for want of a fancier term I'll say becoming a mensch becoming a mensch the way that Toyota defines a mensch and is there really any other form of mensch right so the the next three myths was our mitz was to correspond to the josees okay the first one that we have corresponds to helicase is positive commandment number eight which is to go in hashem's ways you shall go in his ways what does it mean to go in his ways I'll give you a fancy academic term in Latin if you want to sound fancy in matatio De to emulate to imitate uh the Divine and that sounds very abstract so what does it mean our sages tell us it means a bunch of things that are not mits was in their own right but they are part and parcel of trying to emulate Hashem what does it mean our sages say justice he is compassionate you should be compassionate just he is he is merciful you should be merciful and that expresses itself behaviorally in conduct such as the examples given our uh clothing the naked um uh visiting the sick burying the Dead so that would all go under that category of positive commandment number eight which is emulating Hashem okay positive commandment number six is clinging to the sages now it's interesting I mentioned before the the first bits we learned today not to test the profit it really says don't test Hashem so similarly clinging to the sages the the Mitzvah the way it says in Toyota is to cling to him him means Hashem so why do we say the Mitzvahs to cling to the Sages so I say just say well how do you cling to Hashem is he not a consuming fire how can you cling to fire so the answer is you cling to the sage you have a close relationship with the Torah scholar and that's how you cling to Hashem and if you really want to understand this properly you have to learn Tanya specifically chapter two of Tanya where it explains how all the nishamas originally come from this very lofty level where they're all bound up with Hashem but through the process of embodiment we become estranged from our source and our origin and our true selves but what happens is you find a true Torah scholar somebody who's a living embodiment of hashem's wisdom and will here on this Earth and you connect to that person and through that relationship with that person what are you really doing you're reconnecting to your own lost identity to your true self the way that you really are in your origin which is bound up with Hashem so basically through this associative property you can you connect to the scholar to reconnect to yourself which is connecting to Hashem followed that okay again learn chapter two of Tanya and speaking of Tanya uh you really got to learn Tanya to understand and positive commandment number 206 you know which chapter of Tanya you'll tell me in one second positive commandment 200 206 is love your fellow as yourself that of course you gotta learn pedaglave the 32nd chapter of Tanya to really understand that but without getting into the Hasidic explanation of love you fellow as yourself I'll explain very simple in favor of messages that I'm the rambam just says you know what it means it means uh we're talking about practical things uh financial and material things that if you would want it so you should want that for your friend and if you wouldn't want something like you would feel it would be undesirable then you shouldn't want your friend to have that that's that's what it means okay we're going to continue with more of these Mitzvahs that correspond to Tejas and uh hopefully we'll uh not just learn about them but we'll try to put them into practice too as uh as we're going through the daily study see you tomorrow