Day #291–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

it is day number 291 of our daily study and in the three chapters of day study track of M We are continuing husos means rental uh it could be rental of objects it could be rental of Labor what we call hiring Labor uh chapters 10 11 and 12 and we have two Mitzvah today both negative Commandments and you may have a little Deja Vu when we study these mitzvah but I want to clarify that we are not repeating a Mitzvah that we already learned I know because sometimes we do do that right the way that we study sever Mitzvah sometimes uh we do repeat a mitzvah for more than one day uh that's not what's happening here however the Mitzvah that we're learning today are related to the Mitzvah we learned yesterday not the same Mitzvah but they're related to the Mitzvah we learned yesterday and in fact in yesterday's class I kind of alluded to or mentioned the Mitzvah that were learning today so brief preface yesterday we learned a Mitzvah which is a positive commandment today we're going to learn two Mitzvah which are both negative Commandments but yesterday we learned a positive commandment and the positive commandment is that the person who owns the field has to allow the hired help to eat from the produce that they're working with remember you remember that from yesterday if you don't remember you can go back and listen to it okay so that was the Commandment that the owner of the field has to allow the work ERS to eat from the produce now we have two negative Commandments which are sort of restricting the workers how they partake of the produce that they are working with and here we go negative commandment 267 it is that the worker who is permitted to eat from the produce he's working with because because yesterday's positive commandment is that the owner of the field has to let him do it right however there's a negative commandment limiting the worker that he shouldn't do it while he's working in other words you don't eat while you're in the middle of doing your job after you finish the task and let's say the the the you're picking grapes you fill the basket and after it's all filled then you can help yourself you can eat some grapes okay but not I'll take you know I'll put one grape in the basket put one grape in my mouth one grape in the basket one grape in my mouth does doesn't work that way so that's a negative of prohibition upon the worker negative commandment 268 is a Prohibition against this same worker uh from taking more than what he can eat in other words he's not allowed what we call a doggy bag he can't pack some up and bring it home for later okay so those are Mitzvah today you see how it's related to yesterday's commandment they're all sort of governing the same scenario of hired field workers um those are our mitv today okay we will see you for more tomorrow God willing