Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Avodas Kochavim Chapter 1

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

of the worshipping of stars the title that i chose is the headline in the first print of rambam and i believe most or all other prince where there was no christian censorship once there was christian censorship they changed the laws of worshiping the stars and the statues around the customs of worshiping the stars and you can probably figure out why the censorship changed that now as usual in the rambam's unique focus on systemization organization and order he will not start the laws of away all of its twelve chapters twelve chapters and he will not do that first he will give the encyclopedic introduction of all of the mitzvahs that are going to be covered in this section of rambam the previous one tired only had two mitzvahs the mitzvah to learn turner and the mitzvah to respect and give honor to those who teach torah and those who are great scholars in thailand this one has two positive commandments and 49 negative commandments violations that's all together 51 mitzvahs that we have in the hummus that are focused on the summer is going to enumerate very briefly these 51 mitzvahs and then in each of the subsequent twelve chapters of israel he's going to explore some of these mitzvahs and elaborate on them and explain the nuances and the laws and the intricate the details of them until he completes all the 51 mitzvahs now i'm going since the rambam gives this as his opening introduction because he wants everything should be orderly and categorized and organize in your mind we're obviously going to go through these 51 mitzvahs i'm going to go through them very swiftly without explaining them because the chapters are going to explain each mistress if you don't understand something that is perfectly normal that's why the rambam wrote these

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1. 0:34of the worshipping of stars the title that i chose is the headline in the first…
2. 4:48perform the deeds associated with another form of sorcery not to offer your children to the…
3. 9:04energy is born in the year 235 since creation that means two almost two and a…
4. 13:51all the sages of all the gentiles and all their empires there's nobody like you in…
5. 18:01worship this star and build crea and sculpture these images to replicate these types of heavenly…
6. 22:53and it is interesting to note just in parentheses that today there are what 7.7 billion…
7. 26:59counter-intuitive because they don't stop thinking from when they're young children but the ramahame says by…
8. 31:09other process that we see in this world these are the types of things that avramavinu…
9. 35:51like these living today who think there's no god besides these forms get rid of them…
10. 40:11comes to yitzhak it says avraham avinu notified gave this information to yitzhak without any other…

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