[Avodah] S'char vs. Sh'mira & P. Sh'mini

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This p'shetl is a bit radical so please beware...

OK let's start with Acharei Mos

What's "v'lo yamus" imply?

Here's my p'shetl

Coming into the proximity of the Qodshei Qodshim - requires protection

For Aharon - that meant a proper Q'tores - while
An improper Qktores - even b'shogeig - could have left the KG w/o his "radiation suit" and thereby be exposed to an overwhelming dose and risk death.  Not due to a transgression, but -  rather like an electician with a leaky rubber glove - the shock is overhwelming.


Thus with Nadav and Avihu they were consumed primarily because their
ersatz Q'tores failed to protect them [and thus Aharon was commanded
how to avoid such a catastrophe]

And as for Uzah - in Haftara of Sh'mini - aisi he wasn't punished so
much as overwhelmed by the Qkdusha and lacked protection.
 
Bottom line - AISI it's not "punishment" it's consequences. Like a
kid sticking his finger in an exposed socket. Hashem is not punishing
the child.

We have been fixated with seeing din as punishment. Din sometimes is teva,
and electicity, radtiation, high places all entail physical risk.

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Now about m'zuzah, t'fillin etc.

While Anus Rachmanah patreih -  yet the risk of exposure is real.

EG Would the passuq of v'ra'u kol amei ho'oretz work with passul t'fillin?
Perhaps not. Not because of sin! Rather the protective suit has a
unknown leak.

The s'char mitzvah OTOH still exists because HKBH is mitztareif machshavah
l'maaseh, but the reality remains that the associated spiritual power
has a leak, or an incomplete circuit etc.

Story
There is a maaseh with the Hassam Sofer pointing out that Yennem's m'zuzah
was upside down, and that he could remotely know that via Kabbalah.

Now Yennem might have been an anus or a shogeig, I don't know - nor
imho is it relevant. The point is that on the spiritual plane the
ramifications were thus - that CS could detect it.

ZP
RRW
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