[Avodah] Are there halachic issues with using the Mormon fmaily history web site?

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:51:36PM -0500, Samuel Svarc wrote:
> : On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

>:>  Not sure where the 7 mitzvos stands on what, except
>:> leshitas haRaavad (who would permit belief in corporeality for Jews).

>: The Raavad doe not permit belief in corporeality. He holds that such
>: belief doesn't make one a heretic. There is a vast difference between
>: the two formulations.
 
> Please help me understand the difference. Which beliefs are not kefirah,
> apiqursus or meenus and yet are assur? I'm used to thinking that these
> three issurim covered all of the dinim of belief.
> 
> (Notice I shifted from describing the gavra ("heretic") to a discussion
> of the "cheftzah" of the belief ("kefirah, apiqursus or meenus"). Not
> everyone who believes in kefirah is a kofeir. So as to avoid that issue,
> I switched the terminology to one that discusses the belief itself.)

But then you have shifted from the Raavad's formulation.  The Raavad
does not comment on the belief but on the believer.  He says that the
Rambam has no right to dismiss all those who believed in corporeality
as kofrim, because they were "rabim vetovim mimenu"; but he doesn't say
anything about the belief itself.


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