[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Arie Folger]

On Thursday, 11. October 2007 15.53:50 Joseph C. Kaplan wrote:
> RAF writes concerning whether mikveh should be included in the mitzvot
> encompassing the entire body: "The mitzvah isn't to be in the mikveh, but
> to abstain from certain activities while tamei, and perhaps also to be as
> tahor as can be. The mikveh is the
> facilitator, but not the mitzvah itself. KNLAD."
>
> But the woman makes a bracha "asher kidshanu bemitzvotav v'tzivanu al
> hatevilah" implying that it is the tevilah -- that is, the immersion in the
> mikveh -- that is the mitzvah.
>
> Joseph Kaplan

I accept.

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