Count It Or Not?
What do you say to a kind gentile who does you a favor?
ShGOYach.
Which brings us to our question:
The Gemara [R.H. 28a] says that if a shoteh eats matza on Pesach night and then becomes sane he must eat again because a mitzva performed when one is not obligated [such as when he is a shoteh] doesn't count.
However we also pasken like Rav Yochanan who says [Yevamos 62a] that if a person had children when he was a goy and then converted to Judaism, he has fulfilled his mitzva of having children. But WHY??? His mitzva was performed when he was a goy and not yet obligated in the mitzva of having children!?
ShGOYach.
Which brings us to our question:
The Gemara [R.H. 28a] says that if a shoteh eats matza on Pesach night and then becomes sane he must eat again because a mitzva performed when one is not obligated [such as when he is a shoteh] doesn't count.
However we also pasken like Rav Yochanan who says [Yevamos 62a] that if a person had children when he was a goy and then converted to Judaism, he has fulfilled his mitzva of having children. But WHY??? His mitzva was performed when he was a goy and not yet obligated in the mitzva of having children!?
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