DAILY MITZVAH (Maimonides): Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Iyar 25, 5772 · May 17, 2012
Today's Mitzvah
A daily digest of Maimonides' classic work "Sefer Hamitzvot"

Positive Commandment 212
Reproduction

"Be fruitful and multiply"—Genesis 1:28.

We are commanded to reproduce in order to perpetuate the human species. For this reason, a groom on the night of his wedding is exempt from the biblical obligation to recite the Shema, for his mind is presumably preoccupied with the impending mitzvah that he will perform.

This mitzvah is only mandatory for males.

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