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[Music] Rambam Malchut Kiddush of the Month Chapter 3 Halacha 4 Our Rabbanu Rambam writes: There was a witness who saw the month on the night of the Sabbath, sick, they put him on the donkey and even in bed. And if they have a crow on the way, the witnesses take in their hands a vessel for sex. And if the journey was long, they take in their hands food. And even if they saw it, it is great and visible to their hands food. And even if they saw it, it is great and visible to all, they will not say, as we saw, we saw others, and there is no need to desecrate the Sabbath. But anyone who sees the month and is worthy of testifying and is between him and the place where the court is established, a night and a day or less is commanded to desecrate the Sabbath and go and testify. So here, gentlemen, Rambam continues what we dealt with in the previous laws. We saw that the Torah continues what we dealt with in the previous laws. We saw that the Torah permitted desecrating the Sabbath in order to give the testimony of the month. The interpretation of these things is the main command of the Torah to sanctify the month according to this evidence. The main command of the Rambam will teach us later the stages by which things changed until we reached our situation today, where we actually follow the calendars without any choice. But the main command of the Torah is that the month will be accepted according to the evidence on According to the
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- 0:00[Music] Rambam Malchut Kiddush of the Month Chapter 3 Halacha 4 Our Rabbanu Rambam writes: There…
- 2:07month, and we have said several times that according to what the Court sanctifies the month…
- 4:39put him on the donkey. You have already taught me that they can violate the prohibition…
- 7:14well, the living being carries itself, and therefore it is not a Torah prohibition. It could…
- 9:17will be the ruling if We will add another obstacle. There are crows on the way.…
- 11:59that it is forbidden to brandish a weapon on Shabbat. It is forbidden. There is a…
- 14:40explicitly that he should not pray in the synagogue, that he should pray at home on…
- 16:55saw the new moon on the night of the 30th, that is, at a time when…
- 19:58the testimony of the month is received every day three times, the witnesses carried it from…
- 22:3340-year-old to offer another additional sacrifice. The Rambam explains this in the Laws of the Midianites…
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