[Avodah] Mitzvat Aseh

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From: "Richard Wolberg" _cantorwolberg at cox.net_ 
(mailto:cantorwolberg at cox.net) 

>>....you are rewarded for the "lo ta'aseh" mitzvah in  proportion to
the amount of will it took to refrain from its  violation.

Regarding any mitzvah, only HaShem determines what the s'char  or onesh will
be, but it seems difficult to understand that the Rambam (as an  example of
many) would be greatly rewarded for not eating pork (unless, of  course, he
struggled with a desire for it).  <<





>>>>>
It does say in Pirkei Avos "lefum tza'ara agra" but it also says,  "Ratzah 
Hakadosh Baruch Hu lezakos es Yisrael, lefichach hirbah lahem Torah  umitzvos."
 
It seems that we do get reward even for those mitzvos that we find  easy to 
keep, including lo sa'asei's we wouldn't commit even if they were  permitted.  
I guess you don't get a separate, or a huge, reward, for each  and every 
separate cockroach you refrain from eating, but still, you do get  some reward for 
not eating treif, even if you didn't have much of a  struggle.  And the same 
with all mitzvos.
 
It would be a strange thing to say that a person who was such a great  
tzaddik, and who had so perfected himself, that he virtually no longer  had a yetzer 
hara, would not get much of a reward in Olam Haba.


--Toby  Katz
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