Reply To: In the Purim Spirit: Women are required to Ad dlo yada 😂🤣😂🤣

laskern – ” if the actions refllect the mitzva like drinking excessively. no kavono is required.”

That is a deep concept (maybe a choshev person told it to you) and I will illustrate it with the mitzva of kiddush Hashem.

When a person dies al kiddush Hashem, when is the mitzvah done? When he is dead. But a dead person cannot do a mitzvah?! Therefore, the lead up to the death – that is the mitzvah which completes at death (as you wrote: that is the tzuras hamitzvah).

Nimshal: Ad dlo yada is done when a person is k’shikrus Lot, he canot have kavana, he is in a state that he cannot do mitzvos (like being dead), so when is the mitzvah done? The lead up to the ad dlo yada which is completed upon being totally shikur. That is the tzura of this mitzva.