DAILY MITZVAH (Maimonides): Sunday, December 25, 2011

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Today's Mitzvah
Kislev 29, 5772 · December 25, 2011
A daily digest of Maimonides' classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"

Negative Commandment 252
Hurtful Words to a Convert

"You shall not wrong a stranger"—Exodus 22:20.

It is forbidden to verbally distress or humiliate a convert. Such as by telling him, "Yesterday you were an idolater and now you have entered under the wings of the Divine Presence..."

Though it is forbidden to verbally humiliate anyone, one who does so to a convert transgresses this prohibition, too.

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