[Avodah] Mitsvat Sukkah is almost unique

[Elliott Shevin]

Rn. Toby Katz writes: > Of course tevillah is a mitzva in the sense that once you became nidah, if > you are a married woman and if you want to be with your husband, you have to > go to the mikva. But you had no chiyuv to become nidah or to be married....>  And sukkah is a mitvah if you're not too infirm to perform it--but you didn't have a chiyv to be healthy (only to *strive* to be healthy). Providing a get is a mitzvah--but you didn't have a chiyuv to get into an unhappy marriage.> Whoever first said, "There are two mitzvos that are performed with the > entire body" had in mind this definition of mitzva: an obligation incumbent upon > everyone. (Or, incumbent upon every Jewish man, to be more precise.)It doesn't make sense to me to rule out any mitzvah simply because it's situational; an awful lot of them are. Is there a source for your assertion? Elly
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