<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-size:12.8px">Until the Torah was given on Sinai the Avos were not obligated to keep it</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">-- which is why Yakov could marry two sisters, and Amram could marry his</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">aunt. However, for the most part they did keep the Torah even before it was</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">given. Yosef and Moshe certainly converted their wives, but to what? To</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">monotheism and to membership in the Abrahamite tribe -- not to Judaism, which</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">didn't formally exist until the Torah was given. At that point, every</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">single Hebrew converted! >></span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">what does it mean that Yosef and Moshe converted theri wives? They were the only "Jews" around and certainly no bet din. Yosef kept secret that he was a son of Jacob and so its clear what his wife knew. Did his wife also keep "most of the Torah".<br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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