If you are not yet able to cover even one chapter a day, then you may follow the daily study of Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvos.
For this purpose, Chabad have reprinted Sefer HaMitzvos with the mitzvos rearranged to parallel the topics in each day’s regular three-chapters-a-day cycle.
Sefer HaMitzvos
The following paragraphs (and footnotes) were taken from an essay entitled Unity Through Rambam, published by Sichos In English in 5747 (1987).
Because one of the principal goals of learning Rambam is to unite all Jews, women and children should also participate. Thus, children—both in years or in knowledge—although unable to learn Mishneh Torah, should participate by learning a work similar to Mishneh Torah, also authored by the Rambam—Sefer HaMitzvos (The Book of Mitzvos).
The two reasons given above for studying Rambam apply also to the participation of women. Uniting Jewry: The mitzvah to “love your fellow as yourself” devolves upon women as upon men. Torah study: Women are obligated to learn those laws which they need to know—all prohibitory precepts and affirmative precepts not dependent on a set time.
Admur HaZakein, Laws of Torah Study 1:14
Furthermore, because every Jew awaits Mashiach’s coming every day, we can posit that included in the laws which women need to know are many of the laws concerning sacrifices. And concerning laws which they do not need to know, women receive reward for learning them (ibid.).
In his Introduction to Sefer HaMitzvos, Rambam writes that it serves as an “opening” and “introduction” to the Mishneh Torah. In it, Rambam enumerates and briefly explains the 613 mitzvos which are explained at length and in detail in Mishneh Torah.
Sefer HaMitzvos, unlike Mishneh Torah, is not written in Hebrew but in Arabic, the tongue commonly spoken in Rambam’s time; it was afterwards translated into Hebrew by R. Moshe Ibn Tibbon. This implies that this work is able to be studied by those who are as yet incapable of understanding Hebrew—those young in years or knowledge. Hence, those unable to study Mishneh Torah should learn its concepts as presented briefly in Sefer HaMitzvos.
