<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Not having a brit seems clearly to be worse than chillul Shabbat, at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">least in some ways. It's one of only two mitzvot asei whose</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">non-performance carries a chiyuv kareit. Both are associated with the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">basic formation of our national identity in a way that few, if any,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">other mitzvot do.>></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">That indeed was part of the question</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Shabbat is bot an asei and lo asei and chayav stoning<br clear="all"></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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