Division within conditional commandments

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asked 5 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
Do you think it is correct to divide conditional commandments into:
A. Mitzvot that should be strived to keep and committed to. For example: a tzizit – it seems reasonable to me to say that God would want everyone to walk around with a tzizit that would prevent them from seeking after their own heart and eyes, and that would remind them of the mitzvot.
B. A commandment that the Torah is ambivalent about the situation that requires it. For example: a railing. The Torah has no interest in building a house, neither positively nor negatively, but it directs a person on how to build it correctly.
C. A commandment that the Torah views in a negative light (in principle), but directs how to behave correctly. For example: divorce. The Torah does not want a man to divorce his wife, but if we have reached this situation, it commands how to behave correctly.

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מיכי Staff answered 5 years ago

The first two types are not really different. There is no halakhic obligation and there is a matter of earning a mitzvah. If you want to – do it. If you don’t want to – nothing happened. The third type is simply a procedure and not a mitzvah. If you did it, the woman is expelled, and if not, then she is not expelled. But in the article I explained that this is not the case. At least according to the educational system, there is a mitzvah to expel a divorced wife if he has set his eyes on expelling her. It writes that whoever did not do this nullified what he did and his punishment is great.

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