[Avodah] hand washing during a drought

[Micha Berger]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 07:12:56PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
:>:             ... if someone has 2 candles the second night and his neighbor
:>: has none he should give one to the neighbor as it preferable that both
:>: keep the basic mitzva rather than he keep mehadrin while his neighbor doesnt
:>: have any. The true mehadrin is helping the neighbor.

:> Is it?

:> Or should I give my neighbor a perutah, so that he could pay me to be
:> mishtateif in the mitzvah? Maybe he should sleep over, so as to remove
:> any question of where to light

: I was quoting MB on OC:671 (6 in MB)

I still ask my question... Why is it a bigger mitzvah to give up my
mehadrin min hamehardin when there is a way for both of us to fulfil it?

All citing the MB tells me is that an answer must exist, not what the
answer is.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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