[Avodah] [Areivim] Tinok Shenishbah today - opinion of GedoleiHaposkim

[Ilana Sober Elzufon]

RDB, quoting RSZA: at the end of the day, he knows and hears that there are
Shomrei Torah and that according to what they say he must act like them, and
therefore it is very difficult to say that his status is that of Tinok
Shenishba

I don't really understand the reasoning here.

Let's say someone is growing up C or R. So they know that there exist O Jews
who keep Shabbat, eat kosher, and believe all other Jews should do the same.
They also know that there are Xtians who accept J as their saviour and
believe everyone else, Jews included, should do the same. And that there are
vegetarians, atheists, Mormons, Communists, Democrats, Republicans, etc etc
who are all convinced that everyone else really must see the light and share
their beliefs.

Why on earth should such people take the Orthodox Jewish claim any more
seriously than any of these other claims?

Non-O Jews, naturally, see themselves as mainstream and O as fringe. They do
not see O as Truth and themselves as deviating from it.

- Ilana
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