Day #294–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

[Music] today is day number 294 of our daily study of RA mitz and in the three chapters of day study track of M we're finishing H sh with chapters six seven and eight of those laws our Mitzvah today we have just one mitz for today uh but before we learn it I just want to remind you yesterday and the day before we learned about one of the four types of Watchmen or shimm do you remember which one okay very good the borrower and we said the borrower is the weakest position because after all he has the object by him as a favor that's being done to him okay and do you remember many days ago when we learned the first of the four types of Watchmen and actually I said that there's four types of Watchmen but there's only three Mitzvah CU two of the four Watchmen have the same category the same basic rules yeah that's right that's when we learned when what was that in the beginning we learned about the renter and the paid Watchman having the same set of rules same level of liability okay so what does that leave leaves one more of the four types of Watchmen that we haven't learned yet and it is today's Mitzvah positive commandment 242 the unpaid Watchman the unpaid Watchman is is is sort of the opposite of the category we had yesterday in the day before which was the borrower the borrower has the the weakest position highest level of liability because the borrower is having a favor done to him by having the object well it's the exact opposite with the unpaid Watchman the unpaid Watchman is the one who's doing a favor by watching the object so he's actually got the lowest level of liability and would only be responsible in a case of outright negligence but anything else it's considered Beyond his control he's not getting paid to fight off robbers and anything like that um it is what it is you know he's doing you a favor you're going to get whatever you get unless it's outright negligence and uh he would have to swear an oath to the effect that he was not negligent but uh in in if he would swear that he's not negligent then he can't you can't extract anything from him any payment if uh let's say the animal died or was stolen or anything like that okay that is our mitva for today and we will see you for more tomorrow God willing with a new section of Halas in sa Mish