<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; "><blockquote type="cite">If you meant to do a mitzva and through no fault of your own you were <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unable to complete the action, you still get schar<br></blockquote><br>But not as if you had actually done it. </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">That's true. If you had done it, you'd be in the first row. If you were unable to complete the action, you'd be in the second or third row.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">I recall as a teenager being told I got "s'char licha" for going to shul when it turned out there was no minyan (during a blizzard).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>