<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-size: 19px;"> The following flies in the face of the midrashim dealing with G-d going to the different</span><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"> nations and their refusing the Torah but finally the Jews accept it:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"> <i> Rashi, basing his view on Midrash Genesis Rabbah 79:7, 92:4, and 95:2, </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i> the Gemara, Yevamot 21, and other sources, states that Abraham observed the entire Torah, </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i> even though it was not revealed until centuries later to Moses, including even rabbinical prohibitions </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i> that weren’t enacted until a millennium later.The Ramban adds that the afore-mentioned sources say </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"><i> that the other Israelite ancestors also observed the Torah before it was revealed.</i></span><br><br></div><div> <span style="font-size: 19px;">So how can you say the Jews were offered it when they already were observing it from the moment </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 19px; ">the first Jew enters the scene. How then, can you explain that G-d went to the different nations offering</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px; "> them something already observed by the Jews? In addition, if the ovos were observing Torah, then it </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 19px; "> was a fait accompli.</span></div></body></html>