[Avodah] Lehadlik Ner

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Jul 16 07:48:27 PDT 2012


On 16/07/2012 6:36 AM, Allan Engel wrote:
> A similar question could arise over the brocho for tefillin.
>
> The mitzva is to wear tefillin, but the brocho is 'Lehoniach Tefillin' - to 'put them on'. The 'putting on' is merely the process by which the mitzva is achieved, not the mitzva itself, unlike, say, 'Al Achilas Matza'.

Is it?  The mitzvah is "ukshartam".

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Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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