[Avodah] Ikkarim Redux

[Meir Shinnar]

Me
>
> RSB's  point is irrelevant to the main point of the post - my point is
> that in  dealing with others, we have a greater obligation with  
> respect to
> what we  (not they - we) do than what they believe

RSB
>
> WADr, I disagree, especially, when Ikarim are part and parcel of the
> rationale for determining compliance with whether one complies with  
> a halacha  such
> as Shemiras Shabbos (as opposed to making Kiddush), shechitah and  
> edus and
> even fulfilling Mitzvas Krias Shema which is defined as Kabbalas Ol  
> Malchus
> Shamayim.

I think (or hope) we are talking about cross purposes.

In dealing with those who are not yet zoche to be Orthodox, as with  
everything else,  I think that it is far more important to focus on  
what our obligations are - to hashem, to ourselves,and to the other -  
rather than focus on the faults of the others - and sometimes  
focusing on those faults causes us to go astray.  That isn't a point  
that the others don't have faults - and I am sure RSB can give an  
exhaustive catalogue of faults - nor what is the optimal (or even  
minimal) form of kabbalat malchut shamaim - but the question of the  
proper response to those who we think fail to measure up....

Meir Shinnar
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