[Avodah] Rov Jews in EY?

[Arie Folger]

RZS wrote:
> I'd like to see it in *some* posek.
> The pashtus haloshon of the gemara on which he ultimately bases his
> theory ("lo zozu mishom ad she'asa'um") seems to be to be against him

The same terminology is used by teh Gemara in 'Hullin about Kutim ("lo
zazu misham 'ad she'assaum 'ovedei kokhavim gemurim"), which teh
'Hatam Sofer takes to mean that there was a special Sanhedrin
conference to take away teh Kuttim's Jewishness. So there you have a
posseq taking this seriously. I should add that the 'Hatam Sofer was
probably writing about this to imply that Reformers, too, were at such
risk, even though the 'HS may have believed that we do no have that
power since we lack the Sanhedrin (I really don't know and have to
look it up; it has been several years since I learned that sugya).

Anyway, the same mechanism could of course apply to the 10 Shevatim.
-- 
Arie Folger,
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