[Avodah] Vayeitze "Watch Whom You Marry"

[Marty Bluke]

<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.??

There are a number of answers I will mention 2.

1. Yaakov was referring to those mitzvos that are shekula k'neged kol
hamitzvos, like talmud torah, tzitzis, etc. He meant that he kept
those mitzvos and therefore it was as if he had kept all 613.
2. By the Bris nein habesarim Avraham asks Hashem based on what will
his children be zoche? Hashem answered bizchs hakorbanos. Avraham then
asked, what about when there is no Beis Hamikdash and no korbanos?
Hashem answered that if we say (learn) the korbanos it is considered
as if we were makriv them. This is why we daven musaf on Shabbos and
Yom Tov and mention the Musafim, u'nshalma parim sefaseinu.