The Daily Mitzvah schedule runs parallel to the daily study of 3 chapters of Maimonides' 14-volume code. There are instances when the Mitzvah is repeated a few days consecutively while the exploration of the same Mitzvah continues in the in-depth track.
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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)
Day 272: Negative Commandment 252
From the Sichos in English Collection
Important Message Regarding This Lesson
Negative Commandment 252 (Digest)
Hurtful Words to a Convert
"You shall not wrong a stranger"—Exodus 22:20.
It is forbidden to verbally distress or humiliate a convert. Such as by telling him, "Yesterday you were an idolater and now you have entered under the wings of the Divine Presence..."
Though it is forbidden to verbally humiliate anyone, one who does so to a convert transgresses this prohibition, too.
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Daily Quote
When a person comes to a Rebbe and seeks his counsel and assistance in dealing with a spiritual malady, the Rebbe must first find the same blemish, if only in the most subtle of forms, in his own soul; only then can the Rebbe help him to refine and perfect his self and character. This is the deeper significance of that which our sages have said, "the faults of a generation rest with its heads and leaders."
–Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
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