[Avodah] "Watch Whom You Marry"

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, November 27, 2007 12:36am, R Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: On Nov 21, 2007 5:20 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
:> Yaaqov avinu  to justify the claim "vetaryag mitzvos shamarti". - MI

: So how did Ya'akov avinu keep 613 mitzvos when it is impossible for
: any individual to keep all 613 anyway?

I tried to answer that in the rest of my post... There is no claim
being made that YA kept all 613 mitzvos. Rather, that he was shomeir
them. Shemirah is associated with lavin because it connotes guarding
oneself against violating something. More so, a doctor (or, to praise
him again, R' Gershon Dubin and the other guys of Hatzolah) can be
shomer Shabbos despite frequently doing melakhos.

However, I agreed with what was cited besheim a Ram in NIRC, and I
brought support from the LR -- Yaaqov avinu's definition of duties to
guard reflected his knowledge of what his neshamah and the beri'ah
needed.

And so, combining all three (didn't choose to violate; violations
because of overriding reasons don't count; and we're talking about
purpose of laws, not letter), what Yaaqov said was:
Despite being with Lavan, I did not violate the point of any issurim
(or an asei) without a justifying reason among all of the future 613.
Nothing about keeping mitzvos he had no possibility of keeping.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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