[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

Michael Poppers MPoppers at kayescholer.com
Thu Oct 11 06:38:08 PDT 2007



In Avodah Digest V23#222, REMT responded to RAFrimer:
> I have seen it written in the name of the Vilner Gaon that the only two
mitzvos encompassing the entire body are sukkah and yishuv Eretz Yisrael,
with which he associated the pasuk "Vayhi v'shaleim --sukko um'onaso
b'Tziyon." <
and, in the next digest, RJK responded to REMT:
> When I heard R. Riskin quote
that in a public lecture many years ago, one woman in the audience
called out:  "what about mikvah?"  R. Riskin then added that to his
list. <
Perhaps (this as per my understanding of thoughts from a chaveir in REMT's
[and my] community) the mitzvos of [atifas] talis and miqvah are not in the
same category l'fi haGRA because they are not chiyuviyos and/or have some
prerequisite condition (e.g. tum'ah) attached.

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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