Beautifying the Practice of Mitzvot - Hiddur Mitzvah

The Construction of the Temple [Beit haMikdash]

The desire to have more participants, vs. the importance of performing Mitzvot as early as possible: Rosh HaShanah 32b
Regarding the number of Kohanim partcipating in the Service of the Pesach Offering: Pesachim 64b; Zevachim 14b
Regarding the number of people involved in Harvesting the Omer's Flour-Offering: Menachot 63b-64a
Regarding the number of people watching Temple Services: Yoma 70a
Regarding the number of participants in Preparing the Temple's Menorah: Succah 52b
Regarding the number of people who are partners/attendees in a Synagogue: Megillah 27b

In the Omer's flour offering: Menachot 63b
Success in Torah study, as a reward for effort in fulfilling a mitzvah: Kiddushin 31b

Whether one is required to spend money for a mitzvah: Kiddushin 32a
Considering additional items, added for beauty, to be separate and not part of the Mitzvah: Succah 37a
Beautifying korbanot: Menachot 69a
The flour offering brought by one who has sinned should not be beautiful: Zevachim 25a
Not using an item in the Beit haMikdash if one wouldn't present it to a local ruler ["Hakrivehu Na LeFechatecha"]: Succah 50a; Sotah 14b
In circumcision: Shabbat 133b
In the korban pesach: Shabbat 133b
In building a Succah [hut] for Succot: Shabbat 133b; Succah 28b
In picking the arba minim [4 species] for raising on Succot: Shabbat 133b
In binding together the lulav [palm branch] with the other species on Succot: Succah 11b, 31a, 33a
In picking a shofar [horn] for Rosh HaShanah: Shabbat 133b
In picking Tzitzit-Fringes: Shabbat 133b
In writing a beautiful Torah Scroll: Shabbat 133b

One ought to increase up to 1/3 of the value of a lesser item, in order to purchase a finer item for a Mitzvah: Bava Kama 9a-b
Calculation of 1/3 as inclusive or exclusive of the actual 1/3: Bava Kama 9b
The added 1/3 is rewarded after death, but additions over 1/3 are paid back in this world: Bava Kama 9b
Gd had mercy on the Jews' property [chas HaKadosh Baruch Hu al mammonam shel Yisrael], limiting what they had to spend for a specific mitzvah: Rosh HaShanah 27a; Yoma 39a, 44b; Zevachim 6b
Greater expenditure shows love of the Mitzvah: Succah 41b

Bringing the circumcision knife in a visible fashion: Shabbat 130a
The mitzvot which were accepted with joy are the ones which stay, like circumcision: Shabbat 130a
The mitzvot which were reluctantly accepted are the one which people still have trouble with, like adultery and incest: Shabbat 130a
Drinking wine associated with a special blessing in large gulps: R. Succah 49b "Migamaya"


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