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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>>>Keeping all the mitzvos was a hiddur. Keeping ones word was
a chiyuv.<BR>Since he'd promised to marry Rachel he had no right to break
that<BR>promise just because he wanted to be a chassid and keep mitzvos
that<BR>hadn't yet been given.<< [--RZS]<BR>>><BR><BR>>>In
which case iz shverr the 'veTaryag mitzvos
shomarti".<<<BR><BR>SBA<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>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."<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's new at <A title="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" href="http://www.aol.com?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001170" target="_blank">AOL.com</A> and <A title="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" href="http://www.aol.com/mksplash.adp?NCID=AOLCMP00300000001169" target="_blank">Make AOL Your Homepage</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>