[Avodah] various outside groups (was karaites....)

[Zev Sero]

On 2/08/2011 12:21 PM, Harvey Benton wrote:
> don't they claim yichus going way back?

1. Not as far as I'm aware.  On the contrary, they're probably
descended of fake "gerim".   But even if they claimed a yichus, why
would we believe them?  They're pesulim le'edus, and thus presumed
liars.


> mesorah value to their validity as say the yemenites,
> or shomronim, or any other isolated group ....;

Shomronim?!  Chazal tell us that they are 100% goyim, because their
original conversion was discovered to have been fraudulent.  What sort
of "validity" do you imagine they have?

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