Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Avodas Kochavim Chapter 6

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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.

dalit is not to practice something we call aiv which will be explained next mitzvah is not to practice something called yid next one is not to pass your children through the god called milach the next one is not to create an erector monument mitzvah says not to bow down on kneeling stone and the last mitzvoth is not the plant on our sheriff tree these six mitzvahs will be discussed elaborated upon and elucidated in the sixth chapter of hilhes somebody who practices this form of idolatry and black magic which will be explained and he does it voluntarily with his own volition and he does this willingly and intentionally of course he is liable to a heavenly death penalty if they were witnesses and the witnesses also warned him according to all of the laws of what consists an appropriate warning in the torah so that the person really really knew and acknowledged what he's really knew and acknowledged what he's getting into then afterwards niskal then this person might get a death penalty through stoning what if he did this act but he performed it inadvertently he did not know that it's prohibited or he did not know the severity of the prohibition or the consequences the penalties may be khatus kua then he brings in the time of the base amica she would bring a regular sin offering kate said myself what was the practice of this idol dollar tree or black magic witchcraft

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1. 0:33dalit is not to practice something we call aiv which will be explained next mitzvah is…
2. 3:36over it's as though it wasn't heard by the physical ear but rather felt in one's…
3. 7:10sorcery and black magic on witchcraft witchcraft that ambam says i'm putting it right here in…
4. 10:22have your son or your daughter be passed through fire kate said to you i said…
5. 14:03zarya because you're being mocked you're burning a living organism in this case a child you…
6. 17:43the different types of cults of the time believed it so therefore they gave over one…
7. 20:48be awake and see the ceremony of the rambam now shifts to the next section of…
8. 24:27until he does not spread out his hands and his feet on the stone and he…
9. 27:32the person could lie on the side so that his face is not cleaving to the…
10. 31:05which would include the whole section known as the esras kaihanim and ezra sisral which was…

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