[Avodah] Kvitlech

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

> Since we areֲ physical people -- and even in our Afterlife there is
> an aspect of "bodily-ness"ֲ  -- WE needֲ concrete objects and concrete
> actions.ֲ  WE do not live a disembodied life of pure mental abstraction,
> and we cannot approach Hashem in a purely mental disembodied way.
> --Toby Katz

Well said. The Sefer haChinuch echoes this theme of chomer re: shofar etc.

However, one can make a hilluk between mitzvos of Hashem, mitzvos of
Hazal, and simple practices that may be questionable or problematic.

OTOH Yidden did do kamei'os even though tzitzis, Tefiilin, and mezuzos
seem enough to me.

-RRW 
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