Day #262–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

today is day number 262 of our daily study of RZ and ma we are finishing today not only the laws of murder and protection from bodily harm chapters 11 12 13 which finishes that section ofas in the three chapters a day study track of M but in addition we are finishing the entire sa for Nik in the book of Damages and that is the 11th book out of 14 books of mish we have three more volumes left we have k and then we will be finishing the entire uh Mish for those who are learning three chapters a day of mish and for those who are learning safer Mitzvah as we are right now we we'll have learned all 613 Commandments all right today we have negative commandment 299 is the biblical verse says it like this Lea in front of a blind person do not place a stumbling block but that is not limited to the literal meaning it also means figuratively a blind person can mean also someone who's ignorant about a matter do not lead them astray that could be for instance giving bad advice telling somebody to buy something that you know they don't need or would make an investment that's not good for them or it could be causing somebody to sin unwittingly like serving somebody non- kosher food and not telling them that it's not Kosher and causing them God forbid to sin that's all included in do not place a stumbling block before the blind positive commandment 20 two is unloading the burden of a tired animal if an animal's crouching beneath its load um it says the situation here is it's your enemy's animal so even your enemy somebody who you might not feel like helping you should go and help them even though it's not your animal not my business no no no it is your business it's a Mitzvah Torah makes it your business go help this person's animal to get relief take that burden off that animal that was positive 202 positive 20 three is similar but different it's reloading the animal after the burden has already fallen help pick the stuff up and put it back on properly the right way okay and negative - 270 is the prohibition against ignoring such a situation it's a not only it's a positive commitment to be helpful but it's a negative prohibition against just pretending you don't see and being like yeah I don't want to make it my problem I'm just going to walk by that is a prohib from the Torah okay Ma we just finished the entire C and tomorrow we will be starting laws that correspond to the book of Kenyan Kenyan is how ownership of things gets transferred so uh you're going to start learning all about that tomorrow we'll see you then God willing