Reply To: How Do I Know I've Ever Properly Performed Any Mitzvah?

every person should just do their Hishtadlus (buy the pair of tefillin “but also from a reliable sofer) & then you have done your part & if there is a mistake with the pesach matzos you bought the owner of the bakery is the one chayav for you eating chometz C”V not you. his contract includes a promise that all the matzos are kosher for passover etc…

I think you misunderstood my point.

I wasn’t stating that in the cases you mentioned that I am at fault and chayav for not fulfilling them. You’re right in that (to take the matzah as an example) that I wouldn’t be chayav for eating chametz. But that doesn’t mean that I fulfilled the mitzvah of eating matzah. The two do not necessarily go hand in hand. I can refrain from eating chametz and still not eat matzah.

If I, unknowingly, ate “matzah” that had become chametz, I wouldn’t be liable for eating chametz, but I still did not fulfill the mitzvah of eating matzah.

The Wolf