Chasidut zu Wajikra 5:17
וְאִם־נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ כִּ֣י תֶֽחֱטָ֔א וְעָֽשְׂתָ֗ה אַחַת֙ מִכָּל־מִצְוֺ֣ת יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֣א תֵעָשֶׂ֑ינָה וְלֹֽא־יָדַ֥ע וְאָשֵׁ֖ם וְנָשָׂ֥א עֲוֺנֽוֹ׃
Wenn aber jemand, da er gefehlt, und eines von den Verboten des Herrn getan, die nicht getan werden sollen, unwissentlich gefrevelt und eine Sünde auf sich geladen hat:
Kedushat Levi
Leviticus 5,17. “and if a person who has sinned by inadvertently committing one of the acts that ought not to be committed, and as a result has become guilty;” it is well known that the more a person is engaged in serving G’d the less he thinks of his own worth as an individual when compared to the Creator and His greatness. However, when a person performs a commandment of the Torah and at the same time reflects on the insignificance of the commandment in the overall scheme of things, he commits a wrong; this is the reason why this verse commences with the conjunctive letter ו which is hard to justify from the context of the paragraph. The meaning of the whole line is that as a result of such an attitude he becomes guilty, although the attitude was the direct product of his performing a Torah commandment. [The author clearly arrives at this exegesis as he was at a loss why the Torah had to tell us that a person who transgresses a negative commandment becomes guilty; who did not know this? Ed.]
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