[Avodah] Rov Jews in EY?

[Arie Folger]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> On the contrary, that is a posek taking the exact opposite position;
> that, as the lashon implies, this was a specific takana: they did not
> move from that place until they did this.  It wasn't a general psak
> din about anyone who has forgotten his origins.

Correct, but it contradicts your suggestion that it was about ruling
that they never were Jewish in the first place, or that they lost
their Jewishness on account of a particular trait. According to the
'Hatam Sofer's reading, which, if not for the fact that it is
revolutionary, is actually the easiest, most straughtforward reading
of the sugya, it was by rabbinic act that each of the groups (Kuttim
and exiled 10 Shevatim) had their Jewishness actively removed.
-- 
Arie Folger,
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