<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:08:08AM -0400, Michael Kopinsky wrote:<br>: The interesting thing here is that the two mitzvos aseh for which one can be<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">: chayev kares are the two things neglected for the 40 years in the desert.<br>: I'm not sure what the meaning behind this is.<br><br></div>Doesn't it mean that piquach nefesh is docheh?</blockquote>
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<div>Ein hachi nami (l'chorah). But the fact remains, we don't see anywhere that klal Yisrael did not put on tefillin in the midbar, that they didn't bring the korban tamid, or that they ate treif. The only mitzvos that were davka neglected were the two that are chiyuvei kares.</div>
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<div>I once tried answering this by saying that the bris inherent in those two mitzvos that makes them the only mitzvos asei subject to kares was somehow relevant davka to E"Y, and thus Divine circumstances made the wind blow the wrong direction for 40 years, creating the (safek) pikuach nefesh preventing these mitzvos from taking place. The problem is that the pasuk says that the reason one is chayav kares for neglecting K"P is "Ki korban hashem lo hikriv b'moado" (Bamidbar 9:13). There is no mention of bris, which makes it difficult to assume that the chiyuv kares is for violating a bris.</div>
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<div>KT,</div>
<div>Michael</div></div>