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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 82: Negative Commandment 356; Positive Commandment 216

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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.

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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Daily Quote
"Miriam... took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances..." (Song at the Sea, Exodus 15:20) How did the Israelites have tambourines in the desert? But the righteous women of that generation were certain that G-d will perform miracles for them, and they prepared tambourines and dances while still in Egypt...
  –Midrash Mechiilta; Rashi on verse
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