Day #251–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 251 of our daily study ofz and in the three chapters a day study track of M We are continuing in hilus AA that's the laws of robbery and of lost objects we started it yesterday with chapters 1 two and three today we're doing chapters four five and six if you're studying three chapters a day of missionto uh yesterday we had the prohibition against Gaza against robbery today we have a related Mitzvah just one Mitzvah today also a Prohibition just like yesterday negative commandment 247 and that is the prohibition expressed inim that's Leviticus 1913 do not literally it's translated oppress your fellow um but we're going to explain what it means because it has a specific meaning here the verse says do not oppress your fellow theile and do not rob from him okay so these are two different but related uh prohibitions they're distinct prohibitions meaning they are separate Mitzvah of the 613 Mitzvah but they have some similarity first what's the the difference difference is like this leik is when the person who has who has the unlawfully obtained money the ill gotten gains he didn't come up and snatch it that's what the Goslin that's Goslin means a robber someone who commits Gaza that's what robbery is he comes and he and he grabs it and it's not like Geva Geva we learned before that's the uh the thief who comes and secretly takes it Le means that the person who has the ill gotten gains came about it in a legitimate way sort of it's just that he's refusing to now give it to the one to whom it's due give you an example or give you a few examples um employer employe so person worked he earned wages now he comes to get paid and the guy doesn't want to pay him so he's holding on to money that doesn't belong to him that's called Le sashik another scenario uh a creditor debtor situation I gave you a loan now it's time to pay it and you're saying no I don't want to pay it or it could be a deposit somebody who left something for safekeeping oh could you watch this and then he comes back and he wants to get it and the guy's like no you gave it to me you told me you could have right and I just want to explain also it doesn't matter what line the person is saying why he's refusing to give it it could be He just flat out refuses he says no I won't do it could be he makes up a story oh that wasn't the arrangement we had or it could just be some like we say in Yiddish M the cup he's spinning your head around he's giving you the runaround he says oh uh come back tomorrow and I'll have to look at my books and I'll see you whatever line he G it doesn't matter what line the guy is saying the point is he has something that doesn't belonged to him and now he's refusing to give it up that is a distinct prohibition now that's how it's different than Gala how is it similar well it's similar in the fact that you have something that doesn't belong to you but it's really similar in the fact that the penalty for this prohibition is the same as the penalty for XA for robbery meaning to say like we we mentioned yesterday if the person swears falsely that he doesn't have it or doesn't owe it then he'll have to pay a penalty of a fifth and we explained yesterday how to calculate that fifth okay that's the mits for today we will see you for more tomorrow God willing