[Avodah] Bene Israel of India

[Zev Sero]

On 30/05/2012 5:37 PM, Rich, Joel wrote:
> They claim a continuous mesorah as well.

How can they claim a mesorah when they are ignorant of almost all of
TSBK and TSBP?  A mesorah of amei ha'aretz is not a mesorah at all.
If they had the TSBK and TSBP, with some variances that they attributed
to their kabalah, then we'd have to address it in the same way that the
rishonim would have had to address the sefer "Amar Yehoshua" if they
weren't able to dismiss it as a hoax.  But to the best of my knowledge
they had none of these things (and Amar Yehosuha was a hoax).

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