[Avodah] Inviting Someone On Shabbos Who Uses the Eruv when You Don't

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:31:50PM -0400, David Riceman wrote:
> RMB:
>> If the melakhah is violated twice beheelem achas one can get kaparah with
>> just one qorban. But does that mean for sure that the cheit is the same
>> than if they only did it once? Is it safe to assume that the number of
>> qorbanos chatas implies the number of shegagos?

> Rambam PhM Shabbas 7:1 "sheharei ain b'yado ela shegagah ahas b'ikar  
> hamitzva".  Similarly in H. Shegagos 7:2 "shehakol shegagah ahas hi".

Does that mean a single cheit, or is it literal -- he only brings one
qorban because he only had one forgetting ("shegegah")? I think one
can only bring a proof one way of the other from a maqor that uses an
unambiguous (but very common) turn of phrase like "aveirah beshogeieg". Or
perhaps indicative would be someone discussing "beshogeig", since that
would imply we are talking about the number of aveiros, not forgettings.

I would like to say that the real cheit is actually the crime of neglect
implied by forgetting, not the act done beshogeig. But it's a claim
that I would like more solid grounding for. I find the notion that once
someone forgot and did the aveirah there is no motivation to minimize
his violation to that one instance to be very startling.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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