Q&A: Commandments
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Commandments
Question
If I were offered one million shekels in exchange for not putting on tefillin for one day, and I intend to donate 800,000 shekels of that money to charity and to buying tefillin for many Jews, would that be permitted? From the standpoint of expected benefit, it would certainly be preferable to act that way. I could continue putting on tefillin another 34,344 times in my life.
Answer
No. If there were something concrete before us, there might be room to consider it. But for the sake of some future, non-concrete matter, it is certainly forbidden.