The glory of G-D is to conceal a thing. The glory of a King is to find it out. Mishlei 25:2
And the glory of a Talmidah Chachamah is a light to the nations. Yishayahu 42:6, 49:6
There is a concept called "the mitzvah of the moment". I've heard of this concept in connection with Yosef HaTzadik - that Yosef excelled in doing "the mitzvah of the moment". Moreover, doing this mitzvah of the moment, whatever it is, supercedes doing all other competing mitzvot. Doing some other mitzvah in the place of the mitzvah of the moment is an aveirah (sin).
A mitzvah of the moment is like the mitzvah of the bird's nest and a chok/chukah. We can't understand the reasons for the chukim/chukot. We don't even really know what some of these particular kinds of mitzvot really consist of, in terms of recognition and implementation - like in the story of the boy who happened upon a bird's nest - it cost him his life when he tried to implement it as it was thought he should implement it. Likewise, we can't understand how apparently good Jews can be relatively unobservant of the mitzvot. We think we know, but maybe we don't always know. Perhaps these Jews who appear to be unobservant of the mitzvot we think we know are indeed observing a continuous "mitzvah of the moment" that only Hashem is privy to see - and are doing it at such a level that it necessarily occupies all. When the time comes, that this overwhelming mitzvah is no longer the mitzvah of the moment, Hashem will speak to the neshamah of the seemingly unobservant Jew and bring him/her to observance as we normally (or not normally) recognize it.
precedent for one mitzvah superceding other ritual observances:
meit mitzvah & revealing the Glory Of Hashem
meit mitzvah
And the glory of a Talmidah Chachamah is a light to the nations. Yishayahu 42:6, 49:6
There is a concept called "the mitzvah of the moment". I've heard of this concept in connection with Yosef HaTzadik - that Yosef excelled in doing "the mitzvah of the moment". Moreover, doing this mitzvah of the moment, whatever it is, supercedes doing all other competing mitzvot. Doing some other mitzvah in the place of the mitzvah of the moment is an aveirah (sin).
A mitzvah of the moment is like the mitzvah of the bird's nest and a chok/chukah. We can't understand the reasons for the chukim/chukot. We don't even really know what some of these particular kinds of mitzvot really consist of, in terms of recognition and implementation - like in the story of the boy who happened upon a bird's nest - it cost him his life when he tried to implement it as it was thought he should implement it. Likewise, we can't understand how apparently good Jews can be relatively unobservant of the mitzvot. We think we know, but maybe we don't always know. Perhaps these Jews who appear to be unobservant of the mitzvot we think we know are indeed observing a continuous "mitzvah of the moment" that only Hashem is privy to see - and are doing it at such a level that it necessarily occupies all. When the time comes, that this overwhelming mitzvah is no longer the mitzvah of the moment, Hashem will speak to the neshamah of the seemingly unobservant Jew and bring him/her to observance as we normally (or not normally) recognize it.
precedent for one mitzvah superceding other ritual observances:
meit mitzvah & revealing the Glory Of Hashem
meit mitzvah
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