[Avodah] If and When

[Simon Montagu via Avodah]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Kenneth Miller via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> Please note: In the excerpt of the Mechilta which the Torah Temimah quotes
> regarding the mizbe'ach, R' Yishmael says that there are 3 cases where "im"
> is not optional, but the other two are not specified. This is very
> different than the Torah Temimah about lending money.
>
> Torah Temimah Shmos 22:198 does quotes R' Yishmael in the Mechilta, but it
> doesn't mention the word "im" explicitly, nor is there any reference to two
> other cases. He simply asks whether it is a reshus or a chovah to lend
> money, and he answers that the obligation appears in Parshas Re'eh. I find
> it curious that this Mechilta is worded so differently than the previous
> one, but the message is clearly the same.


You see this quite often in the Torah Temima when a derasha says something
about a number of pesukim in parallel. He quotes the same source in each
place, but redacts it so that it appears to be referencing only that
specific verse. An example in last week's parasha is the Yerushalmi that
all 10 commandments are referenced in Kiryat Shma`, quoted on 15:39 and 41
(OK, not such a close parallel because in that case he does make the
cross-reference and quotes the whole passage on Shemot 20:2, but there are
plenty of other examples)

In any case, inside the Mechilta on both verses in Shemot all three "im"s
are listed each time, including bikkurim.

http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=38109&st=&pgnum=245
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=38109&st=&pgnum=317
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