Limud Torah

with Rav Chaim

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PRIAH

The Priah is a part of the Milah. The Mishna says that if you do the Milah without Priah, it's as if you didn't do the Milah. There is no mention of it in the P'sukim which talks about the Mitzvah by Avrohom Aveinu. This is why the Gemara Yevamos 71a says that Priah was not given to Avrohom Aveinu. We only see it written in Sefer Yehoshua. Even though after the Torah, no Navi can come along and add Halachos to the Torah (so how can we learn the Mitzvah of Priah from Yehoshua?) Tosfos answers, it was really given as part of the Halachos L'moshe MiSinai. When Yehoshua wrote his Sefer, he incorporated this Halacha MiSinai as a Pasuk. Therefore, Yeshua was just quoting a Halacha that was given orally at Sinai.
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HAVING KAVANA FOR THE MITZVA

We know that there is a Machlokes whether you need to have Kavanah that you're doing a Mitzva to be Yoitze. By P'ru Ur'vu, when you're supposed to have Kavana will depend on what is the Mitzva. Tosfos, we already said, holds the Mitzva is the Biya itself. Therefore you must have Kavana by the Biya.
 
Maybe you may not need Kavana at all.
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MAMZER HAVING CHILDREN

Logically, a Mamzer would be obligated to have children just like he's obligated in all Mitzvos. (But it's a bewilderment that there should be a Mitzva to increase the amount of Mamzerim in Klal Yisrael)
 
Of course, he needs to marry someone who he's permitted to. But if he can't find someone he's permitted to, is he allowed to marry someone who he's prohibited to? Do we say the Asei (positive commandment) pushes off the Lav?
 
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