[Avodah] Passover and Circumcision in the Desert

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:08:08AM -0400, Michael Kopinsky wrote:
: The interesting thing here is that the two mitzvos aseh for which one can be
: chayev kares are the two things neglected for the 40 years in the desert.
: I'm not sure what the meaning behind this is.

Doesn't it mean that piquach nefesh is docheh?

Which might be a bit of a chidush here, when you think of it in terms of
olam hazeh vs olam haba. However, if it's dechuyah (and kol shekein if
it's hutrah), there is no qareis and thus one can still get both worlds.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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