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==Not Passing Up Mitzvot== | ==Not Passing Up Mitzvot== | ||
# There is a general rule that one may not pass over or delay doing a mitzvah that comes one's way. According to many poskim this is a | # There is a general rule that one may not pass over or delay doing a mitzvah that comes one's way. According to many poskim this is a biblical principle, while others hold it is rabbinic.<ref>Chayei Adam 68:1 quotes Tosfot Yoma 33b and Tosfot Zevachim 51a who imply that ''ein ovrin al hamitzvot'' is biblical unlike the Radvaz 1:529 who writes that it is rabbinic.</ref> | ||
# It only applies when one is deciding to do one of two mitzvot. However, if a mitzvah doesn't apply now there's no prohibition to pass over that mitzvah.<ref>Gevurat Ari (Yoma 15b)</ref> Similarly, if one is faced with two mitzvot and one only has time to fulfill one of them then there is no prohibition to pass over a mitzvah.<ref>Chayei Adam 68:1</ref> Rather one should do the mitzvah according to the following factors: | # It only applies when one is deciding to do one of two mitzvot. However, if a mitzvah doesn't apply now there's no prohibition to pass over that mitzvah.<ref>Gevurat Ari (Yoma 15b)</ref> Similarly, if one is faced with two mitzvot and one only has time to fulfill one of them then there is no prohibition to pass over a mitzvah.<ref>Chayei Adam 68:1</ref> Rather one should do the mitzvah according to the following factors: | ||
## One should do the mitzvah that is more severe such as tefillin more kadosh than tallit.<ref>Yoma 33, Chayei Adam 68:1</ref> | ## One should do the mitzvah that is more severe such as tefillin more kadosh than tallit.<ref>Yoma 33, Chayei Adam 68:1</ref> |