[Avodah] Rav Sternbuch's psak regarding kiruv of non-Jews

[Daniel Eidensohn]

R' Joel Rich wrote:
> Reb Moshe is acknowledging the danger of intermarriage from a non-Jew
> who views himself as Jewish. However he allows the teaching of Torah
> only because the person is a "questionable Jew". It follows that if the
> person is definitely not Jewish he would not have given this heter. 
> Otherwise Reb Moshe would have simply said "any non-Jew who has a Jewish
> identity should be educated in Torah and converted".
>
>
> Daniel Eidensohn
>
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> Could be, but not compelling. Perhaps he was just responding to the
> question at hand and not trying to show how far he would take the
> argument.
>
>   
According to your reading of the Igros Moshe - there is absolutely no 
justification for generalizing from what he says in any teshuva to a new 
situation. Thus despite Reb Moshe's assertion in the introduction to the 
Igros Moshe that he is primarily concerned with presenting servoras - 
you want to view it as simply a historical record of psakim that he had 
given. Consequently you are invalidating the universally accepted use of 
the Igros Moshe - why? However if you are just trying to say that only 
in the teshuva dealing with the Falashas he wrote in an imprecise manner 
which precludes generalization - why should this teshuva be different 
than the rest of the Igros Moshe?

Daniel Eidensohn