Day #281–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

B today is day number 281 of our daily study of and in the three chapters today study track of M we are finishing hilus the laws of neighbors with chapters 13 and 14 of those laws and we are beginning the laws of emissaries and partners okay so as you know the way that we study the SE mitzvas is corresponding to the subject matter in the three chapters a day of M which I just told you we're finishing one set of Alas and beginning another set of Alas and of course we're still in safer Kenyan the book of Acquisitions it's basically about Commerce and how things change hands how uh one person's property becomes somebody else's property okay we've had this uh a couple of times already where the subject matter we were studying didn't have a specific Mitzvah attached to it so if you remember when we did laws of taking ownership over ownerless property and receiving gifts we repeated the Mitzvah that has to do with M with buying and selling and I explained why we did that um just now the alas we just came from we were repeating the a Mitzvah that we learned from the previous safer saer nikin the book of Damages in all right so here's what's going to happen the next few days while we're doing the laws of emissaries and partners we're going to repeat the same Mitzvah and it's a Mitzvah that we've done already and it is positive Commandments 245 the Mitzvah to follow the torah's laws about buying and selling meaning what actually is considered an effective transfer of ownership from buyer to seller that's the Mitzvah that we're going to repeat every day when we're doing because there's no specific Mitzvah that corresponds to this subject matter now I will just mention to you that in the first chapter of that we learn today in the three chapters a day of M it tells us the basic concept of a is the singular form of he calls it the at the end which is the plural um a is somebody who's appointed by somebody else to be his proxy or agent and the general Torah principle is that one one's agent is as himself when a principal appoints an emissary or an agent or a proxy that has full force of the law and uh the context that we're learning it now is basically Commerce like if one person tells another person go out and buy such and such for me it's as if the person who sent the other person is is himself there buying it for himself you understand okay fine so that's what we're learning today we will see you for more tomorrow God willing