[Avodah] Ikkarim redux

[Zeliglaw at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/19/2007 3:22:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
avodah-request at lists.aishdas.org writes:

2.   WRT to orthopraxy - in general, someone who makes kiddush and is  shomer
shabbat is me'id on briat haolam.   The notion of hezkat  kashrut means that
unless we have specific knowledge to the contrary,  someone who is orthoprax
has the hazaka of being orthodox - and we don't  normally check ikkarim....


The Talmud tells us that someone who recites Krias Shema without Tefilin is  
considered as if he is giving false testimony because of the connection 
between  Tefilin and Shema. While the recitation of Kiddush and Havdalah 
accomplishes the  mitzvas aseh of sanctifying Shabbos verbally at the beginning and 
departure of  Shabbos, OTOH, I know of no source wherein it is stated that reciting 
Kiddush is  considered as if one sanctifies Shabbos by refraining from 
melacha. 
 
Steve Brizel
_Zeliglaw at aol.com_ (mailto:Zeliglaw at aol.com) 



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