[Avodah] Ikkarim Redux

[Moshe Yehuda Gluck]

R' MS:
1. The facts that poskim occasionally frame things in terms of ikkarim does
not mean that they are actually normative - ikkarim are used as a shorthand
for the issues of belief - but not in the formal sense that you would like
to use them in.


This comment is not necessarily a response to this particular point of R'
MS: I happened onto a Teshuvos Radvaz (1:344) that speaks to this topic. It
is worth seeing the whole thing (it is quite short), but he disagrees with
the Rambam, and says that the entire Torah, kol prateha v'dikdukeha, are
each an ikkar, a yesod, and a pinah; _and someone who is makchish it (that
ikkar, yesod, and pinah - MYG) is called a kofer and does not have a chelek
in Olam Habah._ The Nafka Minah L'halachah that he says is that if someone
says, "Be M'challel Shabbos to go against your religion," he should be
M'challel Shabbos. But, if they say, "transgress achas m'kol mitzvos
ha'amuros b'Torah because Hashem didn't command it, or because it was only
temporary _and it doesn't apply anymore_ he should be killed, v'al yaavor.
Ayin Sham.
The point is, that according to Radvaz, all C and R "halachic" discourse is
kefira. 

KT,
MYG