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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 249: Negative Commandment 246, 243

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Negative Commandment 246 (Digest)
Stealing Land

"You shall not move back your neighbor's boundary marker"Deuteronomy 19:14.

It is forbidden to tamper with a boundary marker separating two parcels of land, so as to claim part of a neighbor's property. One who does so has violated this Torah injunction—in addition to being guilty of theft.

This commandment only applies in the land of Israel. Outside of Israel, one who tampers with a land marker is only guilty of transgressing the generic prohibition against theft.

Negative Commandment 243 (Digest)
Abduction

"Do not steal"Exodus 20:13.

It is forbidden to abduct one's fellow.

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The chassidim of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi used to say: Our Rebbe revives the dead. What is a corpse? Something cold and unfeeling. Life is movement, warmth, excitement. Is there anything as frozen in self-absorption, as cold and unfeeling as the mind? And when the cold mind understands, comprehends, and is excited by a G‑dly idea - is this not a revival of the dead?
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