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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The following are universally
accepted<br>
1] AAvinu [howsoever we explain his Jewish status] followed all
Halacha and even Minhag</blockquote><br>
Is this the case?<br><br>
According to R Menachem Leibtag, <i>Avot and the Mitzvot</i>,
<a href="http://www.tanach.org/breishit/toldot/toldots2.htm">
http://www.tanach.org/breishit/toldot/toldots2.htm</a> , the Rishonim did
not -- and he sites Rashbam, Chizkuni, Ibn Ezra & Radak who each have
a different take (from most restrictive to most inclusive -- but none of
them saying Taryag mitzvos). He also mentions Rashi, Ramban, and
Seforno who do include 613. (As they each interpret "because
Avraham listened to Me, and he kept <b>mishmarti, mitzvotei, chukotei,
v'toratei</b>." (Bereshis 26:5) )<br><br>
So . . . what about later in time (late Rishonim and onwards)? Did
everyone accept Rashi's view, or did some old by Rashbam, Ibn Ezra, et
al?<br><br>
(In my limited understanding, this seems analogous to RMB's discussion of
Ma'aseh Bereshis, where most of the Jewish world didn't seem to take it
*literally* as seven days until the last century or so. So, in this
case -- re the Avos and *every mitzva* -- when did the general opinion
change? Or did it?)<br><br>
-- Sholom<br><br>
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