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face=Arial>From: Ben Waxman via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR>Subject: Re: [Avodah] Ahab<BR><BR><BR>The
Avot are a mixed bag. On one hand, the Am had to come via Sarah. <BR>Itzhiq had
to marry Rivka and not (to quote the Ramban) one of cursed <BR>nations. OTOH,
Yaacov and Yosef (and certainly Yosef's sons) had no <BR>problem marrying
non-family.<BR><BR>Ben</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Where do you see that Yakov married "non-family"? Bilhah and Zilpah
were family -- they were half-sisters to Rochel and Leah. Yes their
mother[s] were pilagshim but very likely also family.</DIV>
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<DIV>Until the Torah was given on Sinai the Avos were not obligated to keep it
-- which is why Yakov could marry two sisters, and Amram could marry his
aunt. However, for the most part they did keep the Torah even before it
was given. Yosef and Moshe certainly converted their wives, but to what?
To monotheism and to membership in the Abrahamite tribe -- not to Judaism,
which didn't formally exist until the Torah was given. At that point,
every single Hebrew converted!</DIV>
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