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Some mitzvas are better to pass on!!

Written by B Rose

Some mitzvas are better not done!! For example in this weeks parsha we are told “Soim Tasim Olecha Melech” “You shall appoint a king over you”. The Mitzvah in the Torah is to appoint a king over Klal Yisroel. Why then, many years later, did Shmuel HaNavi admonish Klal Yisroel for asking for a king? Some Meforshim explain, although appointing a king is a Mitzvah, it is one that we would rather not have to be Mikayim. Just like there is a Mitzvah to give one’s wife a Get; which only applies if one wants to divorce his wife, and that Mitzvah is one that the Torah would rather you are never Mikayim.

So too, Hashem wants Klal Yisroel to be on a madraga not to have to need a king. Shmuel admonished Klal Yisroel for sinking to the level of needing a king.

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