The science of the mitzvos (part 3) | Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz | June 16 2026

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ated anonymously. Again, it should be an okay. Uh we are uh kind of finishing up uh a unit that's a bit theoretical. Uh it's based on a part of what the Rambam is addressing in his letter to Rafinas. We spent a long time in this letter, but there are many many different things. And that is uh we we we were examining in the past two classes what you might call the science of mitzvah counting and call the science of mitzvah counting and that how do you get the number 613 and then the Rambam safer hamitzvos. Uh part two and part three is the actual enumeration of the 248 positives and the 365 uh negatives. But before the Rambam actually did his listing, he wanted to give you 14 principles which he utilized in his counting. And this is an absolutely unique uh contribution the Rambam made. Uh even before the Rambam there were many many attempts to list there were many many attempts to list the various uh commandments. Uh but there was no systematizing system. Uh people just listed different things. Uh the Rambam wanted to kind of give logical rules uh for it. I'm sorry. Did you you want to sit down there? Okay. Uh so the Rambam wanted to uh kind of give logical rules for all of these things. So you'll remember that this gets us into rule number two. Rule number one is we don't count rabbitic laws as separate mitzvah. That was rule

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