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In Part 5 of the "Rambam Bekius" shiur series (given on 9/15/20) we discussed why the Rambam maintained that he needed to write the Sefer ha'Mitzvos, yet he didn't include any of its content in the Mishneh Torah except for the general minyan ha'mitzvos list at the beginning. This led to a discussion of the Rambam's views on what our focus in our learning should be - a discussion which we will no doubt continue later on in this series. We read an excerpt from his letter to R' Yosef ben Yehuda and compared this to a recent article written by Rav Herschel Schachter in which he expresses similar views. Lastly, we discussed a possible approach for how to learn the Rambam's 14 shorashim/klalim in light of the Rambam's invocation of Yeshayahu 29 to critique the Bahag et al.

(Sorry for the interruption at around 31 minutes. We lost internet and I had to edit the footage.)
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