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category:  Chassidut

3000 year old agreement

why should a Jew nowadays be bound to an agreement (and punished for not following) made by their ancestors 3000 years ago? If my ancestor had made an agreement with God that every time he and his ancestors walked into the house, he banged himself on the head, should I, 3k years later be bound to bang myself on the head?

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