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Why does Jewish law spend so much energy defining who cannot fulfill a mitzvah? What does our incapacity reveal about the nature of sacred obligation itself?
The Architecture of Human Limitation
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These chapters catalog those unfit for yibbum or chalitzah—the sexually impotent, the deaf-mute, the minor, the androgynous. Rather than mere legal taxonomy, this mapping of human limitation reveals a profound truth: mitzvot require the full presence of personhood, and our very disabilities point toward the dignity inherent in genuine obligation.