Day #27–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

day number 27 of our daily study of the ramam Savar Mitzvahs and correspondingly in our study of three chapters a day of mishna Toyota we are in the laws of filling mezuzah and safetyro specifically chapters 2 3 and 4 of those laws and yesterday yesterday we had the Mitzvah of the head film that's positive commandment number 12. that was yesterday's Mitzvah and as we mentioned yesterday that is a separate and distinct mitzvah from the Mitzvah of the arm villain two separate so every time you put on fill in you're actually doing two mitzvas not just one so here we go today's commandment positive commandment number 13. yesterday was positive commandment number 12 the head felon today is positive command number 13 what is it hand villain that goes on the arm next to the heart when the arm is at rest and the Box on the on the biceps goes next to the rib cage where the heart is so it's interesting the difference between these two mitzvahs the language that the Torah uses to describe them is different the verbs you should tie them bind them as a sign on your hand on your arm s and they should be frontlets or sign between your eyes you see the verb is an active verb you should tie it you should bind it is a passive verb it should it should be it should just be there the myth is it should be there and there's a siha from the Baba which I want to highly recommend to everybody to study from the circus helic lamit test that's volume 39 of Lucas specifically on page 22. it is the second is the parisha where the Mitzvah of thylin is is stated so actually the Mitzvah film stated four times in Torah but this is one of the places uh and in this circle it goes into this difference between the Mitzvahs of head villain and armed villain so what's the difference between the myths for being actively tying binding in the case of the hand filling and it just being there in the case of the head fillet okay so practically I'll give you an example a practical example would be let's say somebody put on filling before the time that you're supposed to put on phone meaning they put on fill in Before Dawn so they had the filling on already and then the sun comes up and now it's the time of tilling so this person who was already wearing film Before Dawn and is now continuing to wear to villain After Dawn have they done the mitzvah and the answer is very interestingly they've done the Mitzvah of the head fill in but not of the hand film why because the midst of the head film is just that it should be there and it is it is there it's been there since before Dawn the midst of the hand filling is to put it there and they didn't put it there during the time that you're supposed to put it there it was already there from Before Dawn okay now that's that's a practical uh example but the significance goes much much deeper and this is why I encourage everybody to learn this in its original we know that fill in is the concept of subjugating aligning our minds and our hearts to hashem's Will and more specifically the head filling corresponds to the mind and the armed felon corresponds to the heart makes sense okay the way we subjugate or align our minds to hashem's will is different than the way we subjugate or align our hearts to hashem's Will and this is spoken about at length in Tanya the mind is under our control we can choose to think about what we want to think about and even when we have other thoughts that distract us we can stay focused and keep on thinking about the right thing the heart is much different the the heart is the heart does what it wants to do and sometimes the best we can do is just refuse to listen to the heart meaning we can't force the heart to like what it doesn't like we can't force it to not like what it likes the best we can do sometimes is just to say well sorry heart you're not going to get what you want because I have to do the right thing right now okay the mind is very different though the mind you can actually tell yourself to think the right things we have much more control over the Mind than we do over the heart therefore the mitzvah of the head filling which represents the way that we're supposed to use our minds and serving Hashem is it should be it should be in a state of alignment with hashem's Will with the with the heart it's you do the ACT you do you do your best you attempt to align it but you're not really in control of the outcome with the mind you are and it's your responsibility that your mind should always be aligned with the right things but the heart we try we do our best but sometimes the the heart's gonna do its own thing anyways okay which is why we go back to the mind and sometimes and the mind just has to tell the heart sorry even though we didn't change what you like you're not going to get what you like right now because it's not good for you and it's not what Hashem wants so that's a deeper explanation of the difference between these two Mitzvahs and again I encourage everybody to study this in its original we will see you God willing tomorrow