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# Others argue that it is only if a person has intent to uproot the mitzvah completely.<ref>Sfat Emet ([[Rosh Hashana]] 28b)</ref> | # Others argue that it is only if a person has intent to uproot the mitzvah completely.<ref>Sfat Emet ([[Rosh Hashana]] 28b)</ref> | ||
===Fulfilling the Mitzvah in an Incomplete Manner=== | ===Fulfilling the Mitzvah in an Incomplete Manner=== | ||
# Some understand this mitzvah to mean that it is prohibited to fulfill a mitzvah in detracted manner. <ref>Turei Even ([[Rosh Hashana]] 16b) in his own opinion, Bet HaLevi 1:42</ref> | # Some understand this mitzvah to mean that it is prohibited to fulfill a mitzvah in detracted manner.<ref>Turei Even ([[Rosh Hashana]] 16b) in his own opinion, Bet HaLevi 1:42</ref> | ||
## For example, fulfill the mitzvah of Daled Minim with only three of the [[four minim]], or fulfilling [[tzitzit]] with less than 8 strings is an issue of Bal Tigrah.<ref>Sifrei Devarim 13:1</ref> | ## For example, fulfill the mitzvah of Daled Minim with only three of the [[four minim]], or fulfilling [[tzitzit]] with less than 8 strings is an issue of Bal Tigrah.<ref>Sifrei Devarim 13:1</ref> | ||
## Some say that an example of this is fulfilling the mitzvah of [[tzitzit]] without [[techelet]] strings.<ref>Rav Hershel Schachter in Ginat Egoz 2:4</ref> | ## Some say that an example of this is fulfilling the mitzvah of [[tzitzit]] without [[techelet]] strings.<ref>Rav Hershel Schachter in Ginat Egoz 2:4</ref> | ||
==Doesn't Apply When There Is a Rabbanic Enactment== | ===Doesn't Apply When There Is a Rabbanic Enactment=== | ||
#Some rishonim hold that there's no prohibition of bal tigra if there is a rabbinic enactment to do or not do a certain action.<ref>Rashba Rosh Hashana 16a writes that there's no prohibition of bal tosif when the rabbis enacted to do a certain action. His proof is that we keep [[Yom Tov Sheni]] and that isn't considered bal tosif since the rabbis enacted it for a reason. Then he extends this argument to bal tigra. The reason that it is permitted not to blow the shofar on the first day of [[Rosh Hashana]] when it falls out on Shabbat is because it is considered a rabbinic enactment for a need. Ritva Rosh Hashana 28b agrees.</ref> Others disagree.<ref> The Turei Even Rosh Hashana 16a disagrees because there is no reason a rabbinic enactment could undo a Biblical prohibition of bal tigra. The Haghot Imrei Baruch answers that bal tosif or bal tigra are relevant when the offender is changing the Torah, however, when the intent is to follow the rabbinic enactments there is no change of the Torah. Additionally, the Turei Even asks how the Rashba could explain the Gemara Zevachim 80a that there is bal tosif and bal tigra when dealing with a mixture of blood even though there is a real need and the rabbis should have enacted a solution. Lastly, Turei Even points out that Rashi Eruvin 96a s.v. vod clearly seems to disagree with the Rashba as he asks the question of how we could do [[Yom Tov Sheni]] and not violate Bal Tosif and doesn't answer it like the Rashba did.</ref> | #Some rishonim hold that there's no prohibition of bal tigra if there is a rabbinic enactment to do or not do a certain action.<ref>Rashba Rosh Hashana 16a writes that there's no prohibition of bal tosif when the rabbis enacted to do a certain action. His proof is that we keep [[Yom Tov Sheni]] and that isn't considered bal tosif since the rabbis enacted it for a reason. Then he extends this argument to bal tigra. The reason that it is permitted not to blow the shofar on the first day of [[Rosh Hashana]] when it falls out on Shabbat is because it is considered a rabbinic enactment for a need. Ritva Rosh Hashana 28b agrees.</ref> Others disagree.<ref> The Turei Even Rosh Hashana 16a disagrees because there is no reason a rabbinic enactment could undo a Biblical prohibition of bal tigra. The Haghot Imrei Baruch answers that bal tosif or bal tigra are relevant when the offender is changing the Torah, however, when the intent is to follow the rabbinic enactments there is no change of the Torah. Additionally, the Turei Even asks how the Rashba could explain the Gemara Zevachim 80a that there is bal tosif and bal tigra when dealing with a mixture of blood even though there is a real need and the rabbis should have enacted a solution. Lastly, Turei Even points out that Rashi Eruvin 96a s.v. vod clearly seems to disagree with the Rashba as he asks the question of how we could do [[Yom Tov Sheni]] and not violate Bal Tosif and doesn't answer it like the Rashba did.</ref> | ||
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