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.
Positive Commandment 97 (Digest)
Ritual Impurity of Sheratzim
We are commanded regarding the ritual impurity [contained in and emitted by] certain creeping animals, known as sheratzim, listed in the Torah. [I.e., when contracted, one must follow all the laws associated with this impurity.]
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> The 97th mitzvah is that we are commanded regarding the tumah of the eight types of sheratzim.;) This mitzvah includes tumas sheretz and all its laws.;)
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> See Lev. 11:29-38. Kaplan (The Living Torah, 1981) translates them as the weasel, mouse, ferret, hedgehog, chameleon, lizard, snail, and mole.
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> See Hilchos Shaar Avos HaTuma'os, Chapter 4.