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 82: Negative Commandment 356; Positive Commandment 216
From the Sichos in English Collection
Important Message Regarding This Lesson
Negative Commandment 356 (Digest)
Remarrying a Divorced Wife Who Remarried in the Interim
"Her first husband who sent her away may not marry her again"—Deuteronomy 24:4.
It is forbidden for a man to remarry a woman he divorced if she has remarried [and subsequently been divorced again or widowed] in the interim.
Positive Commandment 216 (Digest)
Levirate Marriage
"Her husband's brother shall be intimate with her"—Deuteronomy 25:5.
The brother of a married man who dies childless is commanded to marry his widowed sister-in-law. [See Positive Commandment 217 for the mechanism by which this mitzvah can be bypassed.]
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Rambam Study Tracks
Daily Quote
No sooner was [Abraham] weaned -- and he was but a small child -- that his mind began to seek and wonder: How do the heavenly bodies orbit without a moving force? Who moves them? They cannot move themselves! Immersed amongst the foolish idol-worshippers of Ur Casdim, he had no one to teach him anything; his father, mother and countrymen, and he amongst them, all worshipped idols. But his heart sought, and came to know that there is one G-d... who created all and that in all existence there is none other than Him. He came to know that the entire world erred...
–Maimonides
The Parshah