[Avodah] Passover and Circumcision in the Desert

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:50:35PM -0400, Michael Kopinsky wrote:
: > Doesn't it mean that piquach nefesh is docheh?

: Ein hachi nami (l'chorah).  But the fact remains, we don't see anywhere that
: klal Yisrael did not put on tefillin in the midbar, that they didn't bring
: the korban tamid, or that they ate treif.  The only mitzvos that were davka
: neglected were the two that are chiyuvei kares.

Which is why I continued:
> 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.

Kareis (at least, in the opinion of numerous rishon) is a cessation of
existence. The ultimate denial of olam baba. And yet, we started out
correctly choosing saving lives with no risk of kareis.

That was my attempt to say why these two.

We should do our job, and leave concerns about sechar and olam haba to
the RBSO.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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