Re: Bal Tosif (prohibition against adding to a Mitzvah)

Michael S. Tsirkin (mtsirkin@usa.net)
Tue, 30 Sep 1997 22:00:03 +0200

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MR ADAM J STEINER (Admiral@prodigy.com) wrote:
<<On the issue of Bal Tosif, is there an isur (prohibition) of adding on to
a mitzvah derabanan (rabbinical decree). Hashkaphically (philosophically)
it seems that there is, but halachically is there an isur?>>

Yes, for example it is forbidden to stand while reading shma in the
morning, and see Mishna Berura 63:2 when he writes that it is a general
prohibition to "invent" humrot (stringencies).

Michael S. Tsirkin
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