[Avodah] Ahab

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

<<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! >>

what does it mean that Yosef and Moshe converted theri wives? They were the
only "Jews" around and certainly no bet din. Yosef kept secret that he was
a son of Jacob and so its clear what his wife knew. Did his wife also keep
"most of the Torah".

-- 
Eli Turkel
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