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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=-webkit-monospace>ri<SPAN
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=-webkit-monospace><SPAN
class=682260623-25092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm not sure this
is a settled question-I have heard it both ways.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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