[malakhi]

This nitpicking over "minor mitzvot" almost (I said "almost") makes an argument for God to do away with the minor technical aspects of the Law.

It is not the commandments themselves that were/are the problem.

[SoothingDave]

This nitpicking over "minor mitzvot" almost (I said "almost") makes an argument for God to do away with the minor technical aspects of the Law.

It is not the commandments themselves that were/are the problem.

I don't think I said they were.

But a multitude of minor rules can encourage the pednat is each of us. God, knowing this, could decide to give us a break. Not because the Law was deficient, but because He knows we're a bunch of knuckleheads.

SD