[Avodah] Who First Said it?

[Samuel Svarc]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
>
> When the Chevraya Kadisha wanted to put him in a strong cherem that would
> cut him off from the shoresh of his neshama and guarantee that he would
> shmad, ch"v,

It's surprising to me that someone can even believe in such a concept
at all, but to say "guarantee" seems to be a denial of 'bechira', c'v,
and would mark all those believing in such nonsense as 'kofrim', r'l.
I honestly don't know which one is worse, as I usually feel that
idiocy is far worse then 'kefira', as a 'kofer' can repent and an
idiot has little such hope. But here the 'kefira' is a display of an
even greater level of idiocy...

KT,
MSS