[Avodah] tinok shenishba

[H Lampel via Avodah]

On 12/29/2015 5:42 PM, via Avodah wrote:
> a list member included a remark that 'the
> tinok shenishba excuse is wearing thin' [in regard to hiloni behaviour
> in the Holy Land]...
> that given the various forms of electronic media, it is impossible to
> have an excuse not to know the Truth, and drew conclusions from that fact.
The Rambam (Mamrim 3:1-3) teaches that merely being exposed to the truth 
does not remove the ''tinok shenishba'' status from those who were 
raised in other belief systems:

    However, this is speaking solely of those who ... initiate such
    denial, such as Tsadok and Bysoos. But the children and
    grandchildren of these kinds of men, who were misled by their
    fathers, that is, those who were born into and bred by the Karaites,
    are like people who while still young had been taken into captivity
    and raised in another religion. Such captives are not quick to take
    hold of the mitzvos, for their situation is prac­tically beyond
    their control: Even if they later hear that they are Jewish and are
    exposed to Jews and Judaism, they still are consi­dered people who
    practice another religion only by force, since they were raised and
    educated erroneously. The same is true with those who keep the ways
    of their erroneous Karaite fathers.

Zvi Lampel

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