[Avodah] vlamalshinim

[Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org]

i had  the  impression, i'm not  sure  where i heard it, that  a major 
purpose of  instituting the 19th  bracha  was to get out of shul, those 
who  outwardly looked  jewish  , but held  alien beliefs, such as praying 
to the trinity.  someone over  sukkot  took great offense to this idea, 
that there were jews who became xtians and were praying on shul to other 
than the RBSO.   it seems that  the  rambam talks  about   the bracha  as 
a  warning  to jews  to avoid 
heretical movements , rather than a community purification method,

maybe  i am conflating a  few  ideas, but the question is    1] was there 
initially  a problem with 'hebrew xtians'  that this bracha caused to 
leave the shuls
2] was the bracha  more  a curse and a warning , rather than a method to 
separate these sects into separate  communities  3] are there numbers as 
to the percent of  prushim  [pharisees]  versus  tzdukim, baitusim, 
xtians, etc  and did they have their  own institutions   ?

[ maybe i am conflating  the issue the fast of Ezra, which many have 
pointed to , as commemorating the effort  to separate out the early xtian 
community  by paul]....


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