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# A passing mitzvah. For example, when faced with the choice of performing a mitzvah that may be done only within the next five minutes versus one that may be done over the next hour, we are to perform the mitzvah that applies immediately and move on the next.<ref>Kiddushin 29b, Berachot 27a</ref> | # A passing mitzvah. For example, when faced with the choice of performing a mitzvah that may be done only within the next five minutes versus one that may be done over the next hour, we are to perform the mitzvah that applies immediately and move on the next.<ref>Kiddushin 29b, Berachot 27a</ref> | ||
==Learning Torah and Other Mitzvot== | ==Learning Torah and Other Mitzvot== | ||
# While Torah is one of the most important mitzvot<reF>Mishna Peah 1:1</ref> if it comes into conflict with a mitzvah that only you can do, the mitzvah takes precedence.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 9b, Rambam (Talmud Torah 3:4)</ref> One explanation for this halacha is that a person's learning should lead up to fulfilling the mitzvot and if a person abandons fulfilling mitzvot in order to learn Torah, it indicates that one's learning isn't done in order to fulfill the mitzvot.<Ref>Rabbenu Yonah (Brachot 9b at the top)</ref> | # While [[learning Torah]] is one of the most important mitzvot<reF>Mishna Peah 1:1</ref> if it comes into conflict with a mitzvah that only you can do, the mitzvah takes precedence.<ref>Gemara Moed Katan 9b, Rambam (Talmud Torah 3:4)</ref> | ||
# In a general sense, learning Torah is more important than [[Kibbud Av VeEm]].<Ref>Rambam (Mamrim 6:13)</ref> | ## One explanation for this halacha is that a person's learning should lead up to fulfilling the mitzvot and if a person abandons fulfilling mitzvot in order to learn Torah, it indicates that one's learning isn't done in order to fulfill the mitzvot.<Ref>Rabbenu Yonah (Brachot 9b at the top)</ref> | ||
## Another explanation for this is that learning Torah is all encompassing and really one should learn all of the time. If one wouldn't interrupt learning in order to do other mitzvot, one would never get a chance to do any mitzvot which Hashem commanded.<ref>Chida in Chaim Shaal 1:71:2, Gra in Sadeh Eliyahu Peah 1:1</ref> | |||
# In a general sense, learning Torah is more important than [[Kibbud Av VeEm]].<Ref>Gemara Megillah 16b, Rambam (Mamrim 6:13)</ref> | |||
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There are a number of principles that determine which Mitzvah takes precedence over another Mitzvah whenever two Mitzvot come into conflict.
The more common Mitzvah
- One of the major principles is Tadir VeSheino Tadir, Tadir Kodem; the more frequent of the two mitzvot takes precedence. [1]
- Examples of this principle can be found in Kitzur S"A 10:2 regarding putting on Talit before Tefillin, Kitzur S"A 76:12 regarding saying Mincha before Mussaf, and Kitzur S"A 139:14 regarding the Torah reading for Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh.
Mitzvah d'gufa
- A mitzvah that applies directly to oneself. For example, a father and his son have yet to be redeemed from a cohen(pidyon haben); in the situation where the father only has enough to redeem himself or his son, he is to redeem himself and then his son. [2]
Mitzvah overet
- A passing mitzvah. For example, when faced with the choice of performing a mitzvah that may be done only within the next five minutes versus one that may be done over the next hour, we are to perform the mitzvah that applies immediately and move on the next.[3]
Learning Torah and Other Mitzvot
- While learning Torah is one of the most important mitzvot[4] if it comes into conflict with a mitzvah that only you can do, the mitzvah takes precedence.[5]
- One explanation for this halacha is that a person's learning should lead up to fulfilling the mitzvot and if a person abandons fulfilling mitzvot in order to learn Torah, it indicates that one's learning isn't done in order to fulfill the mitzvot.[6]
- Another explanation for this is that learning Torah is all encompassing and really one should learn all of the time. If one wouldn't interrupt learning in order to do other mitzvot, one would never get a chance to do any mitzvot which Hashem commanded.[7]
- In a general sense, learning Torah is more important than Kibbud Av VeEm.[8]
Sources
- ↑ For the source of this halacha, see Gemara Brachot 27a, 51b, Pesachim 114a, Megillah 29b, Sukkah 54b, and Zevachim (Mishna 10:1).
- ↑ Kiddushin 29a
- ↑ Kiddushin 29b, Berachot 27a
- ↑ Mishna Peah 1:1
- ↑ Gemara Moed Katan 9b, Rambam (Talmud Torah 3:4)
- ↑ Rabbenu Yonah (Brachot 9b at the top)
- ↑ Chida in Chaim Shaal 1:71:2, Gra in Sadeh Eliyahu Peah 1:1
- ↑ Gemara Megillah 16b, Rambam (Mamrim 6:13)
