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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: "Richard Wolberg" <A
href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</A></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><BR>>>....you are rewarded for the "lo ta'aseh" mitzvah in
proportion to<BR>the amount of will it took to refrain from its
violation.<BR><BR>Regarding any mitzvah, only HaShem determines what the s'char
or onesh will<BR>be, but it seems difficult to understand that the Rambam (as an
example of<BR>many) would be greatly rewarded for not eating pork (unless, of
course, he<BR>struggled with a desire for it).
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<DIV>It does say in Pirkei Avos "lefum tza'ara agra" but it also says,
"Ratzah Hakadosh Baruch Hu lezakos es Yisrael, lefichach hirbah lahem Torah
umitzvos."</DIV>
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<DIV>It seems that we do get reward even for those mitzvos that we find
easy to keep, including lo sa'asei's we wouldn't commit even if they were
permitted. I guess you don't get a separate, or a huge, reward, for each
and every separate cockroach you refrain from eating, but still, you do get
some reward for not eating treif, even if you didn't have much of a
struggle. And the same with all mitzvos.</DIV>
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<DIV>It would be a strange thing to say that a person who was such a great
tzaddik, and who had so perfected himself, that he virtually no longer
had a yetzer hara, would not get much of a reward in Olam Haba.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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