“Im lavon garti” cannot possibly mean literally all 613- besides all the other examples, we know that Yaakov married two sisters, davka when he lived with Lavan.
Bottom line, as ubiquitin said (I think we are actually on the same side here), we consider ourselves shomer torah umitzvos, even though none of us can possibly do all 613, and even though we sometimes mess up.
So why is it so hard to accept that chazal said that the avos kept the mitzvos? why does it have to be all or none? And why assume that they kept them in the exact way that we keep them after receiving the Torah?
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