10 Strengthening Limud HaRambam Worldwide Week of Ei’kev/Re’eh 5772

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In the past week , Perek Echad learned Hilchos Chometz Dedications: U’Matzah. The following is a free translation of a Sicha that L’zchus Rafuel ben Milka who is in a Metzar and needs salvation from the almighty analyzes some points from chapter 7: L’zchus HaChasid Shalom Mordechei HaLevy ben Rivka Rubashkin sh’teizei In Hilchos Chametz u”Matzah, the Rambam writes: “It is a positive l’cheirus b’karuv! L’zchus Yisroel Yitzchok Dovid HaKohein ben Esther commandment of the Torah to tell of the miracles and wonders that In honor of the birth of a daughter to Levi and Meucha Blizinsky, by Avremi were wrought to our forefathers in Egypt on the 15th of Nissan, as it Rosenthal says ‘remember this day, that you left Egypt’ (Bo 13:3)”, similarly to as it says ‘remember the Sabbath day’ (Yisro 20:8). How do you Please help this project continue: see contact info top left column. know that this is on the night of the 15th of Nissan? Because the Torah says, ‘And you shall tell your son on that day saying because Sponsored by GoKosher.org for all of your kosher, kashering, of this’, (Bo 13:3) at the time that you have matzah and maror lying and toiveling needs nationwide! before you. Even if you have no son, even great sages are obligated Email: [email protected] Phone: 1-888-GO-KOSHER to tell of the exodus of Egypt, and whoever tells at length of the story that occurred this is praiseworthy!” To aid in understanding the quoted Sicha from last week’s publication It needs to be understood, why did the Rambam bring the pasuk “remember the Sabbath day”? What was lacking in the regarding the difference in the order of Rambam and Shas in regards to pasuk “remember this day that you left Egypt”, that is was Hilchos Yom Tov, and specific holidays: It still requires examination as to necessary to teach “remember the Sabbath day?! why Pesachim comes before Beitzah in the Talmud (unlike the Rambam

The commentators on the Rambam (Migdal Oz) cite the which teaches Hilchos Yom Tov, and then each specific Yom Tov in detail), words of the Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvos (Positive command 157), and I hope to address this at some point (see previous publication which “we are commanded to recount the exodus of Egypt on the night of the 15th of Nissan . . . and the verse that is brought (in Sefer cited the Rambam’s Perush HaMishnayos as a source for that answer). HaMitzvos ) is ‘and you shall tell your son on that day. . .’ The Nevertheless, from a sicha of Acharon Shel Pesach 5745, the Rebbe teaches Mechilta says that it is implied by ‘when your son asks’, that you us: “It is a general rule that the Rambam relies on what he wrote earlier, only tell him if he asks, rather the Torah commands ‘you shall tell and not what he writes later [i.e. he builds is halachic work in order, your son’ even if he does not ask you. The Mechilta also states that relying on previous halachas as he goes on]. From here it is understood it is only implied to recount the exodus if one has a son, but what about to himself or to others? To answer this the Torah says, ‘And that the learning of Rambam must be in order specifically, and it isn’t, one Moshe said to the nation, remember this day’, meaning that G-d is prone to derive wrong interpretations of the halacha, because the commanded this mitzvah in a similar vein to ‘remember the Rambam relies on what he wrote previously (as he teaches new laws). It is Sabbath day.’” different with the learning of Shas. Although there is a reason why one On the surface, it seems as if both Mishnah Torah and masechta follows another, nevertheless it is not applicable to halacha. This Sefer HaMitzvos bring “Remember the Sabbath day” to teach the is because the general rule applicable with Rambam [halachic order] same lesson, which is the obligation to recount the exodus even when one has no son. However, in reality this is not plausible, doesn’t apply to the Talmud. Therefore it doesn’t matter whether or not because the Rambam brought two completely different verses to one learns the Talmud in order. (based on Toras Menachem Acharon Shel teach the obligation of recounting the exodus, cited above. Pesach 5745 page 1546, and see also Yad Malachi Klali HaRambam ch. 6. Why would the Rambam retract his earlier proof in See also Klali HaRambam Z”l printed in the beginning of the Mishnah Sefer HaMitzvos for recounting the exodus and replace it with a Torah). different verse in Mishnah Torah? The answer lies in the

Rambam’s intent behind the compiliation of the Mishnah Torah, which is to teach the pshat in delivering the final law of the 613 Beis Ha’Rav: “In the introduction to Shulcan Aruch Ha’Rav the Baal mitzvos. The main point regarding the halacha of HaTanya’s sons write: Our father, our teacher explained in Hilchos Talmud recounting the exodus is to tell the story of going out of Egypt. The Torah the obligation to know the entire Torah, which is obligatory on every Rambam changed his proof for this mitzvah when he wrote Jew, is to know all of the 613 mitzvos of the Torah and their explanations Mishnah Torah; in order to avoid an in depth discussion of what as they were given to Moshe at Sinai…Since this is so, it is understood the happens if a person has no son. This is why the Rambam had to necessity to learn the Rambam specifically, because no other quote the verse regarding “remember the Shabbos”. A person compliation includes all of the laws of the 613 mitzvos…”(Toras fulfills his obligation of remembering Shabbos by reciting Kiddush Menachem 5745 Vol 4 p 2215). (‘zechira’ means to remember and to mention or recite). The Rambam still had to bring the verse of recalling to your son, Bubbie Miriam’s Geulah Gardens Childcare and Playgroup is now taking because he wanted to teach another law, which is the focus of new applications. We are located across from 770 and state certified, call Mishnah Torah, to teach laws, which is that this ‘zechira’ is on the th 718-363-2390 15 of Nissan.