[Avodah] The Ikkarim and the Limits of O, rerere...dux

[Micha Berger]

I just wrote:
: Take a look at the opening of the KSA's discussion of Shabbos.
: Is he saying that anyone who keeps Shabbos has a chezqas kashrus, and you
: don't need to do the impossible -- test another's belief? Or is the KSA saying
: that shemiras Shabbos is inherently the dividing line.

I just reread 72:2. It seems pretty incontrovertible that a mechalel Shabbos
is categorized in the manner I identified with the kofeir. He doesn't anywhere
say that he is limiting this category to the mechalel Shabbos. In 72:1 the KSA
has much positive to say about a shomeir Shabbos, but not that it is
sufficient.

So I retract the seifa of my post -- I don't see any way to draw conclusions
from KSA 72 about anything but chilul Shabbos.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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