[Avodah] [Areivim] Tinokos Shenishbu today - opinion of GedoleiHaposkim

[Ben Waxman]

Yet the Rambam lived in a community filled with Karaim. Either he didn't warn them or he did. Is there any record or tshevua of the Rambam stating "I told these guys the truth and they still refuse to accept it so they are now to be considered heretics"?  AFAIK no. Secondly, I don't know what the Radvaz means by "warned". A 30 second talk? 30 years of talking to them? The word "warned" is certainly not is the spirit of what the Rambam writes in Hilchot Mamrim.

Finally, I have to question exactly what is the worth of warning people when experience shows (we do to these Karaites every day) that the results are the exact opposite of what one would presumably want (they become bigger heretics). Or to make the point differently - what is the point of warning them?

Ben
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doron Beckerman 
   
  The Radvaz writes that the Rambam would agree "If they have been warned to return to the strength of the Torah and they still retain their rebelliousness and do not want to heed, just as we do to these Karaites every day; and on the contrary, they become bigger heretics."
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