[Avodah] Anoos

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 02:50:50PM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
:> A person who does the wrong thing be'oneis is pardoned, and a person who
:> it prevented from doing the right thing be'oneis is counted as though he
:> acted -- his omission of actually acting is "pardoned".

: Or it could be he is not scored as being mvatel an aseeh but not
: credited as doing it.

But what R' Asi (Qiddushin 40a) actually says is
    afilu chashav adam la'asos mitzvah
    vene'enas velo asa'ah
    ma'aleh hakasuv ke'ilu as'ah.

There is no "or is could be"...

R' Asi is quoted when discussing the idea of "machashavah tovah metzarfah
lema'aseh." As Rashi ("metzarfah") says, "and he is repaid even for
the thought."

Thus the symmetry I suggested -- oneis for an omission is as though
there was no omission, just as oneis for a commission as as though
there was no sin committed.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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