[Avodah] R'YBS-Feminist/Talit Story

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

On 4/25/2018 11:32 AM, Sholom Simon via Avodah wrote:
>> And the Frimers' article (Winter 1998, a half-year before) is at
>> (pg 41 [37th of the PDF]) http://bit.ly/2FfK715

> Let me ask the obvious question here. According to the story, the Rav
> concluded: "It was obvious, therefore, that what generated her sense
> of 'religious high' was not an enhanced kiyum hamitzvah, but something
> else" and therefore was "an inappropriate use of the mitzvah".

> Does anybody here get a "religious high" from doing a new mitzvah?
...
> Now, suppose you got that "high" but later found out that the mitzvah
> was done incorrectly. Does that mean the "high" one felt was perforce
> inappropriate?

> The more obvious question: doesn't one sometimes get a high because he
> is thinking that he is being mekayum a mitzvah?...

For a Brisker, certainly inappropriate. For others, not so much of a
problem.

KT,
YGB