[Avodah] Buying a letter

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 7:18pm PST, R Saul Newman wrote:
: When various campaigns 'sell' a letter/pasuk/parsha etc in a torah,
: does the 'buyer' own anything? Is the buyer mekayem any mitzva other
: than tzedaka?

Funding the writing of a seifer Torah is tzedaqah, but it is also enabling
a mitvah and thereby allows one to share sekhar in that mitzvah.

Whether that's called qiyum hamitzvah... Someone who funds another's
learning may well share in the sekhar of the mitzvah, but their soul
isn't shaped by Torah knowledge or by the experience of acquiring it.
He didn't enter R' Chaim Volozhiner's Torah as a miqvah hamitaher...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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