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## Saying Kedusha multiple times a day isn't Baal Tosif.<ref>Rashba Teshuva 1:249, Rama O.C. 125:2</ref> | ## Saying Kedusha multiple times a day isn't Baal Tosif.<ref>Rashba Teshuva 1:249, Rama O.C. 125:2</ref> | ||
===There Is a Doubt to Do Something=== | ===There Is a Doubt to Do Something=== | ||
# Some say that there is no bal tosif when one is doing an action to avoid a safek.<ref>Tosfot Yeshanim Yoma 58b, Shitah Mikubeset Zevachim 80a learn from Rabbi Yehoshua who says that there is no bal tosif for blood in a mixture since there is a doubt if one needs to sprinkle it.</ref> | # Some say that there is no bal tosif when one is doing an action to avoid a safek.<ref>Tosfot Yeshanim Yoma 58b, Shitah Mikubeset Zevachim 80a learn from Rabbi Yehoshua who says that there is no bal tosif for blood in a mixture since there is a doubt if one needs to sprinkle it. Their language is very general and seems to permit bal tosif for any case of a doubt.</ref> Others disagree.<ref>Turei Even Rosh Hashana 28b argues with Tosfot considering that if there was no bal tosif anytime there was a doubt why would there have been a question of bal tosif to sleep in the sukkah on the 8th of sukkot outside Israel. Taharat Hakodesh Zevachim 80a distinguishes that in a case of a doubt because of a mixture it is acceptable to do an action because of a doubt. That is because each action one is doing can be justified. [Note that the Gemara Zevachim 81a accepts that the Mishna could even be speaking about a case of individual cups of blood that are mixed and not just if the blood mixed together in one cup.] However, if there is no mixture such as a case of sleeping in the sukkah on the eighth of sukkot that is forbidden because of bal tosif even though there is a doubt.</ref> | ||
# Some say that if there is a mixture of items and for some doing something would be a mitzvah and for others it would be a sin of bal tosif there is no prohibition of bal tosif whenever there is a mixture.<ref>Rabbi Eliezer in Zevachim 80a states that there is no question of bal tosif when there is a mixture. Rabbi Yehoshua responds that there is no bal tigra in a mixture. Considering that we follow Rabbi Yehoshua (Rambam Psulei Mukdashin 2:11), did Rabbi Yehoshua accept Rabbi Eliezer's argument? | |||
* Why would Rabbi Yehoshua think that you shouldn't sprinkle the last three sprinklings if there is no bal tosif in a mixture? | |||
* Perhaps he didn't really hold of that idea and indeed there is bal tosif with blood in the mixture. That is the position of the Or Same'ach Psulei Mukdashin 2:11. He explains that It isn’t even bal tigra when it is in a tarovet since there’s a reason you’re not doing anything here since you can’t in fear of violating bal tigra. However, for bal tosif what justification do you have to do an action that can violate bal tosif just because of the other mitzvah. | |||
* However, the Tosfot Harosh Rosh Hashana 28b argues that Rabbi Yehoshua held of the first reason and merely suggested another reason to be passive even if one didn’t accept the first argument. Tosfot Rosh Hashana 28b too take this approach and explain that Rabbi Yehoshua held that there is no bal tosif when the blood is in the mixture but nonetheless he held it is better to be passive. Also, Tosfot Yeshanim Yoma 58b and Ritva there quote this first reason of Rabbi Yehoshua as conclusive. Why would he advise being passive if there is no prohibition at stake and there is an opportunity for a mitzvah? The Taharat Hakodesh Zevachim 80a s.v. matniten explains that once the blood of the korban is mixed with other blood there is no more mitzvah to sprinkle the other sprinklings after he did the first one. That is why there is no more of a reason to do them after we establish that there is no bal tigra when the blood in a mixture. | |||
* Therefore, it seems that most rishonim including Tosfot, Tosfot Harosh, Tosfot Yeshanim, and Ritva hold that in fact Rabbi Yehoshua held that there is no bal tosif when there is a mixture.</ref> | |||
===Following the Rabbis=== | ===Following the Rabbis=== | ||
# There is no issue of Baal Tosif when one's intention is to follow the Rabbis such as by keeping a [[second day of Yom Tov]].<ref>Rashba Rosh Hashana 16a, Ritva Rosh Hashana 28b, Igrot Moshe 2:60 s.v. umah. However, the Turei Even Rosh Hashana 16a disagrees. He asks how a rabbinic enactment can permit a Biblical prohibition. See [[Bal Tigra]] page where the Imrei Baruch's answer is discussed.</ref> | # There is no issue of Baal Tosif when one's intention is to follow the Rabbis such as by keeping a [[second day of Yom Tov]].<ref>Rashba Rosh Hashana 16a, Ritva Rosh Hashana 28b, Igrot Moshe 2:60 s.v. umah. However, the Turei Even Rosh Hashana 16a disagrees. He asks how a rabbinic enactment can permit a Biblical prohibition. See [[Bal Tigra]] page where the Imrei Baruch's answer is discussed.</ref> | ||
