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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 79: Positive Commandment 222

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Important Message Regarding This Lesson

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.

Positive Commandment 222 (Digest)
Divorce

"And he shall write her a bill of divorce and place it in her hand"Deuteronomy 24:1.

In the event that a couple decides to divorce, it is a mitzvah for the husband to effectuate the divorce through a bill of divorce, known as a get.

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Daily Quote
Fear not a sudden terror, nor the ruin of the wicked when it comes. [They may] take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak words, and it shall not stand; for G-d is with us.
  –Proverbs 3:25; Isaiah 8:10
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