[Avodah] Ahab

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From: Ben Waxman via Avodah  <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
Subject: Re: [Avodah] Ahab


The  Avot are a mixed bag. On one hand, the Am had to come via Sarah. 
Itzhiq had  to marry Rivka and not (to quote the Ramban) one of cursed 
nations. OTOH,  Yaacov and Yosef (and certainly Yosef's sons) had no 
problem marrying  non-family.

Ben

 
 
 
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Where do you see that Yakov married "non-family"?  Bilhah and Zilpah  were 
family -- they were half-sisters to Rochel and Leah.  Yes their  mother[s] 
were pilagshim but very likely also family.
 
Until the Torah was given on Sinai the Avos were not obligated to keep it  
-- which is why Yakov could marry two sisters, and Amram could marry his  
aunt.  However, for the most part they did keep the Torah even before it  was 
given. Yosef and Moshe certainly converted their wives, but to what?   To 
monotheism and to membership in the Abrahamite tribe -- not to Judaism,  which 
didn't formally exist until the Torah was given.  At that point,  every 
single Hebrew converted!
 

--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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