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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: "M Cohen" <A href="mailto:mcohen@touchlogic.com">mcohen@touchlogic.com</A><BR><BR><BR>>>
Kelayim in the bigdai kahuna<BR><BR>similar to an avaira lishmah?
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<DIV>An aveira lishma is an aveira. It may be something you do for a good
reason (or for what you think is a good reason) -- but it's still an
aveira. it is something that is against the halacha even though you think
there is good justification. The only example I can think of right now
would be driving on Shabbos in order to go to shul, but there are better
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<DIV>In contrast, if something is a mitzva, then it is not an aveira -- by
definition. If Hashem Himself commanded it, then it is not an
aveirah. In the BHM'K a lot of things were done -- because the Torah
decreed that they must be done -- that would be an aveirah in other
circumstances but were a mitzva in the BHM'K. The most obvious example is
shechting and cooking meat on Shabbos.</DIV>
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<DIV>The bigdei kehunah contained shatnez because the Torah commanded that they
be made of certain materials. The same Torah also said that
personal clothing may NOT contain shatnez. Obviously if Hashem
Himself commanded that the bigdei kehunah be made of wool and linen then it was
a mitzva to make them that way -- not an "aveira lishma"! Not any kind of
aveirah!</DIV>
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<DIV>How could Hashem forbid something in one place that He mandates
in another? Well, getting back to the subject line of this thread -- "holy
or evil?" -- I don't think you could possibly call shatnez "evil" since the K'G
wore shatnez, but you could possibly say that it is an evil /act/ to
misappropriate something holy and use it for your own purposes or use it in a
manner that the Torah forbids.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000></FONT><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV>
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