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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)

Day 177: Negative Commandment 113

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Negative Commandment 113 (Digest)
Doing Work with Animal Designated for Sacrifice

"You shall not do any work with the firstborn of your ox"Deuteronomy 15:19.

It is forbidden to do work with an animal designated for sacrifice [e.g., to use the animal to plow or to transport a load].

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Should you say: what one sage permits, another prohibits; what Rabbi Eleazar condemns, Rabbi Joshua acquits; what the House of Shammai disqualifies, the House of Hillel declares fit; to whom then shall we listen? Says G-d: Nevertheless, it is all given from one Shepherd...
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