[Avodah] Vayeitze "Watch Whom You Marry"

[T613K at aol.com]

>>Keeping all the mitzvos was a hiddur.  Keeping ones word was  a chiyuv.
Since he'd promised to marry Rachel he had no right to break  that
promise just because he wanted to be a chassid and keep mitzvos  that
hadn't yet been given.<< [--RZS]
>>

>>In  which case iz shverr the 'veTaryag mitzvos  shomarti".<<

SBA

>>>>>
Someone else also brought up that point.  But "Taryag mitzvos  shomarti" is 
shverr even without Yakov marrying two sisters.  NO ONE can do  all 613 -- 
unless you are a man, a woman, a kohen, a levi, a Yisrael, a king, a  judge, a 
witness, the brother in law of a childless widow, and so on, all at the  same 
time.   "Taryag mitzvos shomarti" just means, "I kept the  Torah"  -- I kept the 
mitzvos I had to keep, I served Hashem -- despite  Lavan's influence.  
"Shamarti" doesn't even have to mean "I kept" -- it can  also mean, "I upheld, I 
guarded."




--Toby  Katz
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