[Avodah] Free Will Vs. Physics

[Rich, Joel]

	If you meant to do a mitzva and through no fault of your own you
were 
	

	unable to complete the action, you still get schar
	


But not as if you had actually done it.  


That's true. If you had done it, you'd be in the first row.  If you were
unable to complete the action, you'd be in the second or third row.


I recall as a teenager being told I got "s'char licha" for going to shul
when it turned out there was no minyan (during a blizzard).


ri 
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I'm not sure this is a settled question-I have heard it both ways.
 
KT
Joel Rich 
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