[Avodah] Kinyan on Shabbas? (Har Sinai)

[Zev Sero]

harveybenton at yahoo.com wrote:

> D. Can one acquire an eved, get married, or enter into any (lasting) 
> legal obligations whatsoever on Shabbas (accetping a neder on oneself?)

One *can*.  One *may* not, because of a gezera lest one write a shtar.
Obviously gezerot don't apply to Hashem.

> E. Perhaps Shabbas was not something that was binding on the Jews at the 
> Time of Har Sinai (as it preceded the kabbalah of Aseres Hadibros?) and 

That won't work.  Shabbos was binding from Marah.


> therefore all of these questions of mine are mute.... ???

Moot.

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