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 25: Positive Commandment 5
From the Sichos in English Collection
Important Message Regarding This Lesson
Positive Commandment 5 (Digest)
Prayer
"And you shall serve the L-rd, your G‑d"—Exodus 23:25.
We are commanded numerous times throughout the Torah to serve G‑d. Although this is a general commandment, it does contain a very specific application: prayer, service of the heart as expressed through the mouth.
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Daily Quote
“Pharaoh commanded to all his people: Every son that is born shall be cast into the River” (Exodus 1:22). The Nile was the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and its most venerated god. Therein lay the deeper—still relevant—significance of Pharaoh’s decree: Today, too, Jewish survival depends on our ability to resist the dictum that children must be submerged within an educational system whose focus and goal is the attainment of a “career” and “economic success”.
–The Lubavitcher Rebbe
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