Day #289–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 289 of our daily study of and in the three chapters ofday study track of M we're continuing hos uh we we started yesterday with chapters 1 2 3 today we're doing chapters four five six skus as I mentioned yesterday is rentals renting and yesterday we mentioned the laws of somebody who rents an object in his responsibilities while he has that object that he that he rented and we mentioned also another category the person who gets paid to watch an item um because it has the same laws as a renter and then tangentially I also mentioned the other two uh of the four categories of Guardians remember that the unpaid Watchman and the borrower at any rate so um now let me just explain the Mitzvah that we're going to talk about today so in the three chapters of miona yesterday and today and also for the next few days we're speaking about people's responsibilities when they have an item that they've read rented and it doesn't have to be an item it could be also a person rents a house let's say okay but towards the end of these Halas in h it talks about a different type of rental which is renting labor we don't call renting labor but we call it hiring somebody uh somebody who works for a wage they get paid to do a day's work okay so those laws are dealt with in this same section of could mean renting an item or property uh and it could also mean renting labor so that's why this is all included in the same uh section of Halas so here we go positive commandment 200 is the positive commandment to pay the day worker in a timely fashion what does a timely fashion mean it means if they are a worker who works during the daytime you have to pay them by the following night if they're a worker who works in the night time you have to pay them by the following day and that is a Mitzvah whether the worker is Jewish or a resident alien non-jew if you remember the term GTO this is somebody who's not Jewish but they follow the sa noide laws and they live in the land of Israel Okay negative commandment 238 is the coraly prohibition the the negative commandment not to fail to pay the worker in a timely fashion not to just say h come back uh later I'm I'm busy right now I'm uh what what do you need the money for right now anyways no no no somebody you hire them for a day you pay them at the end of that unit of time okay as we said in the F there's there's the day and the night so if they work for the day you pay them at latest by the night that follows they worked in in the night and you pay them at latest at the latest in the following day okay that's how it works all right those are our mitzvah for today we'll see you for more tomorrow God willing