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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 289: Positive Commandment 200; Negative Commandment 238

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Positive Commandment 200 (Digest)
Timely Remittance of Wages

"Give him his wage on the day it is due"Deuteronomy 24:15.

We are commanded to pay a daily worker in a timely fashion, and not to delay payment. A day worker collects his wages on the night that follows, and a night worker collects his wages on the following day. This mitzvah applies to all workers—whether Jewish or gentile.

Negative Commandment 238 (Digest)
Postponing Payment for a Hired Worker

"The wages of a hired worker shall not be left with you overnight until the morning"Leviticus 19:13.

It is forbidden to delay the timely payment of a hired worker. A day worker must be given his wages on the night that follows, and a night worker on the day that follows.

This prohibition applies only to a Jewish worker (as opposed to the positive commandment to pay in a timely fashion, which applies to both Jewish and non-Jewish workers).

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Daily Quote
Not only the tribe of Levi, but any man of all the inhabitants of the earth, whose spirit has moved him and whose mind has given him to understand to set himself aside to stand before G-d to serve Him, to worship Him, to know G-d and walk justly as G-d has created him -- this man has become sanctified, a holy of holies, and G-d shall be his portion and his lot forever, and shall grant him his needs in this world, as He has granted the Kohanim and the Levites.
  –Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Shemittah and Jubilee Cycles, 13:13
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