[Avodah] mitzvat aseh

[Michael Kopinsky]

On 10/17/07, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> RMF claims that the mitzvah of yishuv EY is a mitzvat Aseh kiyumit like
> Tzizit
> where one is not required to do it but one gets a mitzva if one does.
>
> R. Shapira (Ztl) disagreed and pointed out that if one wears a cloth
> with 4 corners
> then one is required to put on tzizit. Similarly other mitzvat Aseh
> kiyumit the choice
> is whether to be in the position. However once in the position the
> Mitzvah is required.
> Same thing for Succah once one eats a meal on any day of Succot it
> must be in a Succah.
> The kiyumit part is only that one doesnt't have to eat a meal.
> None of this applied to yishuv EY


(Catching up on old Avodah posts....)

The way I understood R' Moshe's shita is that it IS similar to tzitzis.  The
gemara/Rambam/poskim all say that there is an issur to leave EY, but do not
say that it's assur to live in Chu"l.  Saying it's a mitzvah kiyumis (as
opposed to "mitzvah chiyuvis al haguf" - his lashon in EH 1:102) means that
there is no automatic chiyuv.  Someone who lives there, is chayav to
continue to do so, the same way someone who is wearing a beged with 4
corners is chayav to wear tzitzis.  But there's no chiyuv to go to Israel,
nor to wear such a beged.

I would like to see his piece in Dibros Moshe, where he says he discusses
this further.  Does anyone know where this in Dibros Moshe it is?

KT,
Michael Kopinsky
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