All these things, etc.] The answer showed how little the young man knew his own heart, but he was only repeating the vainglorious boasting of his teachers. The Talmud represents God as speaking of 'My sanctified ones, who have kept the whole law from Aleph to Taw.' Moses, Aaron, and Samuel were said to have kept the whole Law. It is said that when Rabbi Chanina lay upon his deathbed, he said to the angel of death, 'Bring hither the book of the Law, and see whether there is anything in it which I have not observed.'

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