Coming on the heels of the Chabad.org Web site's new section on Maimonides in honor of 25 years since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, encouraged Jews around the world to join one of three daily study cycles of the medieval sage's work, developers announced this week that Maimonides' Sefer Hamitzvot is now available in Spanish.

The addition of the Spanish-language brings to four the number of languages available for daily study of Maimonides' listing of all 613 commandments, including English, Hebrew and French.

In related news, all three cycles — the annual three-chapter-per-day study of the Mishneh Torah, the three-year one-chapter-per-day cycle, and the yearly study of the Sefer Hamitzvot — are now available from Chabad.org's Mobile platform for users wishing to study the texts from the convenience of their smartphone or handheld computer. ...