Day #98–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today is day number 98 of our daily study of ramen in the three chapters a day of Mishra we are on my holistic laws of forbidden Foods chapters 11 12 and 13. we have uh five minutes today again all prohibitions the past several days have all been negative Commandments and they're all food related dietary law related what we call Cassius okay here we go negative commandment 181 is against eating an injured animal an animal that because of its injuries will die within 12 months this is what is referred to as a trefa a trefa literally means a torn animal but it can be any type of injury or illness or ailment that would would not allow the animal to live uh to live out the year um we use the term trafe colloquially to describe pretty much all prohibited foods but the actual technical meaning is this all right negative commandment 182 is the prohibition against eating the limb of a living animal cutting off a limb removing a limb and and eating it is prohibited negative commandment 184 the prohibition against consuming blood from eating the blood of an animal in fact we take extra precautions to remove the blood from the meat that is consumed according to kosher law through a process of salting called Malika negative command 185 the prohibition against eating Caleb Caleb is a hard word to translate there's Schumann they both mean fat they're both types of fats in an animal um but they're different parts in the anatomy of the animal and the Schumann is permissible fat and the Caleb is forbidden fat 183 negative commandment 183 finally the prohibition against the GID hanasha eating the gidanasha that is the sciatic nerve the nerve that runs up the back legs of the animal and of course the origins are the story of yankovino our forefather Jacob when his hip was dislocated when he was wrestling with uh his brother Ace of Esau's Angel but later of course that uh Mitzvah was reiterated harsinai in other words our responsibility to keep this Mitzvah is not because of the story that occurred to yankovino but rather the story that occurred to yankovino is the precedent but like all Mitzvahs that we keep all of the 613 Mitzvahs they were issued at the Revelation at Sinai and taught to mashirubenu who taught them and transmitted them to the people okay we will see you again for more of uh food related laws God willing tomorrow