Day #49–Rambam DAILY Sefer HaMitzvos

is day number 49 of our daily study of ramam say for a mitzvahs and this corresponds in our daily study of three chapters of mishna Toyota two chapters 6 7 and 8 of hilcus eriven which makes that a seum a completion of those laws there are eight chapters total in the laws of Ervin and we're finishing them today in the three chapters a day of mishna Torah so this is our last day in Saints learning anything that corresponds to the concept of the aidof and as I mentioned to you I think it was yesterday that there are no biblical Commandments that directly relate to this Mitzvah because the aidov is a rabbinic concept however indirectly there is a Mitzvah that relates to this concept and I think you'll recognize it I hope you'll recognize it or remember this commandment because we actually had this commandment already when we learned Shabbos and here it is here's the Commandment for today just one commandment today negative commandment number 321 what is negative commandment number let no man leave his place on the seventh day yeah we we learned that Mitzvah back when we were doing the uh mitz was the correspond to the laws of Shabbos and we're doing it again and why are we doing it again well uh because it relates to the whole concept of aerof there are a couple of different understandings of what this verse means one is and we mentioned this before if you're if you recall uh that it's describing the tum Shabbos the the limit the boundary how far outside of the settled area one is allowed to walk on Shabbos but also um it's described as being a source for the prohibition against carrying or transporting an article from one domain to another that's how it speaks about it in the the gamada in aravind base 17b it speaks about this verse is actually talking about carrying transporting an article from one domain to another that that is prohibited on Shabbos and that's the aspect that I want to talk about I want to focus on today as I share with you a tiny tiny tiny glimpse into a teaching that the Reba shared related to this mitzvah and I'll just give a little bit of background first before I share with you the teaching this is something that the Reba shared in the context of a seum on the masecta of erovan that I've been made a seum in honor of his father's yard site so this was Huff of that's the date of the Reba's father's passing base that's 57-22 or the summer of 1962. and this became an attitude which you can find in lekute aleph the third the fact that it's Paris bashallah has actually Germaine here and that is because uh actually the first place that you find Shabbos mentioned as a commandment as an observance is in Parsha special it's this verse so this is one of the questions that Eva asks which is why is the first time the very first time we hear about Shabbos a reference to a very specific aspect of Shabbos observance specifically the prohibition against carrying similarly in the traditional pack in the mishnah and the gemara the first aspect of Shabbos that's dealt with is carrying same thing so why is carrying like our entry into the discussion of Shabbos there's so much to Shabbos why is carrying the first thing that we learn about Shabbos so the idea of Shabbos observance mentions that the purpose of Shabbos observance is to implant within us the faith that Hashem created the world something from absolute nothing which means that even now there's no existence but Hashem it's all Hashem because the world isn't God forbid an existence separate from Hashem and that's what Shabbos is all about it's about recognizing that everything is Hashem in other words everything is a private domain or the domain of one or Oneness as it were not erishus a domain of the many as much as it appears to be so we look around we see all these disparate entities and forces and we think if we buy into what our senses are telling us that it's a world of of Multiplicity but we know that's not so there's only one existence and it's only hashem's existence so therefore Shabbos is to remind us that the whole world not only it is run by Hashem but at all it's all Hashem ultimately it's all Hashem so everything is it's all a single domain a domain of Oneness of of unity and therefore Shabbos on a spiritual level is the message that we should make sure not to so to speak transport things from a private domain into a domain of the Mania meaning we shouldn't think that there are different uh frames of reference or context within which reality operates and sometimes we're within the domain of hashem's exclusive existence and sometimes God forbid we're not we leave that domain so in order to impress upon us that it's all or it's all Oneness we have the Shabbos we have the observance of Shabbos and therefore the first aspect of Shabbos observance that we're told about is the prohibition against bringing an article moving it from the the domain of the one to the domain of the many because it's symbolic of the entire message of Shabbos that's just one glimpse into one aspect of the teaching uh that the Reba shared on that occasion and I really again as as every time that I mention that ebb is teachings on rambam I want to reiterate that there's nothing like learning it in the original so I want to recommend that you do it that way if possible if not seek a study partner find someone who can learn it with you and um just appreciate how every aspect that we're learning now has literally endless infinite layers of meaning it never ends it really never ends we'll see you God willing tomorrow for a whole new section of halacha new subject God willing