Reply To: The Groom, the Mourner, and the Shipowner

I was going to ask on you from almana, so it’s a good thing I clarified first. The problem I have with your pshat is that first of all, I don’t think it will actually help him do the mitzva properly, and second of all, it wouldn’t be a general principle of ???? ?????; it would be a principle of thoughts that contribute to a mitzva. Unless you are saying that that’s what ???? ????? actually means.

Also, perhaps I am reading too much into the words, but the Beit Yosef (quoted above) says ????? ????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ????? which seems to be distinguishing between ???? ????? and ?????. Though of course you could respond that it’s just saying that even when he’s not actually engaged in the mitzva, he is still patur because of the ????? which contributes to the mitzva and is therefore considered like ???? ?????. I think that might be a bit of a stretch though. And it would be somewhat odd that all the poskim left out the ikkar point.