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 203: Positive Commandment 113
From the Sichos in English Collection
Important Message Regarding This Lesson
Positive Commandment 113 (Digest)
The Red Heifer
"And it shall be as a keepsake for the congregation of the children of Israel"—Numbers 19:9.
We are commanded to prepare a red heifer [as detailed in the Torah], to have it ready for the procedure of purifying those who are ritually impure as a result of contact with a corpse.
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When so commanded by G‑d, refraining from doing a mitzvah is no less a mitzvah than doing a mitzvah
–Alshich
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