[Avodah] Kelayim - Holy or Evil?

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From: "M Cohen" _mcohen at touchlogic.com_ (mailto:mcohen at touchlogic.com) 


>>   Kelayim in the bigdai kahuna

similar to an avaira lishmah?   <<

 
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An aveira lishma is an aveira.  It may be something you do for a good  
reason (or for what you think is a good reason) -- but it's still an  aveira.  
it is something that is against the halacha even though you think  there is 
good justification.  The only example I can think of right now  would be 
driving on Shabbos in order to go to shul, but there are better  examples.
 
In contrast, if something is a mitzva, then it is not an aveira -- by  
definition.  If Hashem Himself commanded it, then it is not an  aveirah.  In the 
BHM'K a lot of things were done -- because the Torah  decreed that they 
must be done -- that would be an aveirah in other  circumstances but were a 
mitzva in the BHM'K.  The most obvious example is  shechting and cooking meat 
on Shabbos.
 
The bigdei kehunah contained shatnez because the Torah commanded that they  
be made of certain materials.  The same Torah also said that  personal 
clothing may NOT contain shatnez.  Obviously if Hashem  Himself commanded that 
the bigdei kehunah be made of wool and linen then it was  a mitzva to make 
them that way -- not an "aveira lishma"!  Not any kind of  aveirah!
 
How could Hashem forbid something in one place that He mandates  in 
another?  Well, getting back to the subject line of this thread -- "holy  or evil?" 
-- I don't think you could possibly call shatnez "evil" since the K'G  wore 
shatnez, but you could possibly say that it is an evil /act/ to  
misappropriate something holy and use it for your own purposes or use it in a  manner 
that the Torah forbids.
 
 

--Toby Katz
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