[Avodah] is this ok

[Zev Sero]

On 15/08/2012 5:06 PM, saul newman wrote:
>
> would there be  any reason to say that  a functionary  of another
> religion is somehow  not allowed  to  be mekayem  mitzvot  while
>  staying in that status?

Why would one say that?  Surely you must have a svara in mind, in order
to suggest such a thing.  What difference does it make to the Torah what
made-up position someone holds in a made-up religion?  Surely the only
thing that matters to the Torah is that this man is oved AZ, but in that
he is no different than a layman.  And it's clear from Tanach that a mumar
laAZ, while he might be like a nochri for some purposes, is still mechuyav
in mitzvos, and is punished for not keeping them.

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