[Avodah] R' Angel & Geirus Redux

Arie Folger afolger at aishdas.org
Thu Apr 3 07:41:18 PDT 2008


RMS wrote:
> The rambam is actuallly quite explicit
> - while he requires a priori investigation of gerim, once converted,
> even by a bet din that did not tell them about mitzvot, they are gerim -
> and if they sin, they are a yisrael rasha rather than not being a ger.

While you claim that this is the simple reading of the Rambam, that doesn't 
account for the Rambam statement of 'hosheshim lo 'ad sheyitbarer tzidquto. 
Rather, the Rambam seems to say that his status is in doubt.

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Arie Folger
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