[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:41:31AM -0400, Elliott Shevin wrote:
: ... As an aside, tumah is not intrinsically a bad thing....

I think that's a difference between nigleh and nistar.

According to the gemara, you have to wash neigl vasser before tefilah.
According to the Zohar, and this made it into halakhah pesuqah (outside
of Teiman), one is supposed to wash as soon as possible. Tum'ah is
transformed from something that contradicts certain mitzvos to something
inherently wrong and to be minimized.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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