[Avodah] Vayechi - Judge every person favorably

[Zev Sero]

On 10/01/2012 5:40 PM, hankman wrote:
> RZS wrote:
>> The Qaraim of the Rambam's day were hardly first-generation! How did he
>> relate to them? Certainly not as the article we'd discussing suggests.

> Well, the Ramban felt sufficiently comfortable with the Samaritans
> to have one of them read the inscription on the Machatsis haShekel he
> found when he arrived in Israel that was written in kesav Ivri which is
> similar to the kesav of the Samaritans. Perhaps that is not "relating"
> to them in the sense you meant, (perhaps just credibility derived from
> a meisiach lifnei tumo situation?)

What is this supposed to show?  How is it relevant?  Samaritans are
goyim gemurim, no different from Arabs.

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Zev Sero
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