Day #92–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

and in our three chapters a day of mishna Torah we are still in Hillcrest specifically chapters 15 16 and 17. these are laws of forbidden intimate relationships and so that's what we have just like we've had for the past several days negative Commandments all prohibitions of specific off-limits Intimate Relationships let's do them negative commandment 52 the prohibition against a Jew marrying a non-jew negative commandment 53. this is going to require a little bit more explanation this is a Prohibition against Mary Inc someone from the nations of amine and mayev Aman and mayev are nations which are actually related to each other they both are from light light was the brother of Sarah um he and his two daughters escaped the destruction of stoim and they had incestuous relations and they gave birth to the progenitors of these two Nations so when and now you're going to say well why is it prohibited to have to to marry someone from Amin and moyev those are non-jews he just told me it's prohibited to Mary and Andrew so isn't that redundant no what we're saying is that even after someone from Amin and mayev amen or mayev become Jewish through halachic conversion it is forbidden to marry that person interestingly there was a whole discussion about the lineage of King David because he's descended from Russ or Ruth was from mayev she was a moabite but the prohibition is against marrying the male converts from Amin and maiev now you're going to ask well what happens to these people who do they who do they marry so they can marry other converts from Amin and mayev or any other converts as long as they are still from a known lineage of being from however they cannot marry a born Jew negative commandment 55. not to reject an Egyptian what does that mean it means in contrast to what we just learned about the converts from Amin and mayev this is talking about a convert from Egypt I don't mean geographical Egypt I mean someone who's A from the the biblical nation of mitzrayim meaning who is descended from the biblical mitrim the actual uh people who were the inhabitants of biblical mitraim uh we don't know such people today probably such lineage doesn't doesn't even exist but there's a Prohibition against rejecting an Egyptian convert from marrying a born Jew after three generations as opposed to amen and mayev where I'm an invadev as long as they have that status of having that lineage they don't marry a born Jew but a an Egyptian convert after three generations is able to marry a born Jew Okay negative commandment 54 very similar not to reject someone who is an adoimy from edoim which is the nation that is descended from Asaf or Esau and that this is similar to the previous prohibition it's talking about a convert from adoim and in the third generation he is allowed to marry a born Jew by the way who is a famous convert from edoim ivadia Obadiah I think they say in English and because he's a convert from Adam he is the one who had the Merit to prophesize about the downfall of edem it's actually the haftura for parshuslach Okay negative commandment 354 the prohibition against marrying a Manser people translate that as bastard but that is not a great translation because the English term has a different meaning means somebody who is born from any of these forbidden relationships that we've been mentioning all these incestuous relationships or or relationship with with a married woman that's what a monser is so a monser cannot marry a born Jew they could marry a convert however uh negative commandment 360. a that is the prohibition against a castrated man not to marry a Jewish woman and negative commandment 361 prohibition against castration against castrating a male interestingly this also applies to animals one's not allowed to castrate a male animal either those are our Mitzvahs for today we will see you again God willing tomorrow