Mitzvah of the Week: Update

Not a very auspicious start to my Mitzvah of the Week project, is it?

In order to make it work, I need to devote more time to the ground work -- to knowing what the mitzvah in question, thinking about it before jumping in, then taking the time to write a thoughtful post-mortem.  The holidays have made this hard, not to mention that I've been a little intimidated by the literature.  You'd think it would be easy to find (a) an unambiguous list of the mitzvot themselves and (b) sufficient background material to make sense of what they actually ask one to do.  In reality, it isn't so easy.  I've already come to the realization that the Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvot is really only the tip of one iceberg.  The paragraph or two he offers by way of explaining each miztvah is one thing; his Mishnah Torah has many, many volumes, each of which takes a handful of mitzvot and treats them in much greater depth.  This is good, because it provides a lot more food for thought and much more explanation than in Sefer HaMitzvot alone.  The problem is that the order in which the mitzvot are treated in the Mishnah Torah isn't the same as in Sefer HaMitzvot.  So I either have to spend $600 to buy the entire set up front, or go with the flow and work through the volumes in their original order.  I'm going with the latter.

So I apologize for the delay, but it should be worth it...  Stay tuned!