[Avodah] p'ru urvu

[Elazar M. Teitz]

     RMicha Berger writes:

>There is a difference between those mitzvos explicitly repeated as part
of the covenent in later books, and those only re-given in Sinai when
Moshe was given sefer Bereishis. Those repeated twice in the chumash
(such as the issur AZ) are both universal and included in the beris
Sinai. Those which only appear in bereishis (milah, peru urvu, and since
we don't hold like R' Yehudah, gid hanasheh) were limited to Jews once
the concept existed.

R' Noach Witty (former list member) asked me in shul on Simchas Torah
why, according to this, is the berakhah we make at a beris "lehakhniso
bivriso shel Avraham avinu", if the Abrahamic covenant was *replaced*
(rather than enhanced) by a later one at Sinai and not currently in force?<

     It is the mitzva which was repeated at Sinai, and its b'racha is "al hamila."  However the covenant was not repeated; all the Torah stated in Vayikra was "uvayom hash'mini yimol b'sar orlaso."  The only bris (or rather, thirteen b'risos) was made with Avraham Avinu, and was neither repeated nor replaced.  Indeed, the original b'ris was to be kept by "ata v'zaracha acharecha l'dorosam."  Hence, the b'racha on the entry into the b'ris, as opposed to the b'racha on the mitzva of mila, refers to b'riso shel Avaraham Avinu.

EMT

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