[Avodah] Vayeitze "Watch Whom You Marry"

[SBA]

From: T613K at aol.
 >>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]
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>>In which case iz shverr the 'veTaryag mitzvos shomarti".<<SBA

S.. "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.">>

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I disagree. Most mitzvos can be fulfilled via Yidden being areivim zeh lezeh
etc etc.

But when one has been oyver a lav - there is no way that he can claim to
have observed the taryag mitzvos.

SBA