Day #245–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 245 of our daily study of and in the three chapters day of M we're continuing in N the laws of monetary damages chapters uh 9 10 and 11 of those laws and our Mitzvah today Mitzvah 241 the Mitzvah to follow the laws regarding damage caused by fire and this is based on the verse in that's Exodus 225 when fire goes out Goes Forth and finds Thorns um you may have noticed that all of these verses I've been reading to you from for the past both today and the previous three days as well are all from the book of schmice Exodus they're also all from basically the same area in the book of SCH they're either from chapter 21 or chapter 22 they're all in the para the weekly Torah reading known as mishpatim mishpatim means uh civil laws these are the four uh archetypical categories of torts so we had first day uh the Goring Ox then we had the grazing ox and then we had the pit and now we have the fire and each of these misses are different categories of uh laws governing Financial liability restitution that somebody has to make when they cause such damage okay tomorrow God willing we're finishing this section and uh we'll see you then God willing