[Avodah] tenets of faith

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:54:26AM +0200, Eli Turkel via Avodah wrote:
: I think a harder question would be someone who says he doesnt accept the
: Rambam's
: tenets of faith pointing to the book of Marc Shapiro of rishonim that
: disagreed with each and everyone of the tenets...

The question isn't R/Dr MS's historical analysis but the specific beis
din's pesaq of what defines apiqursus, as well as how many other BD
agree and whether they're willing to make a geir that fewer or more
posqim would accept.

Equally irrelevant is use of "apiqoreis" in the polemical sense.

Nu, so we're ore machmir than many rishonim on defining these categories.

: disagreed with each and everyone of the tenets. e.g. the convert says that
: G-d has a body based in fact on kabbalistic texts.

Then he misunderstood qabbalah. I know this is off topic, but even RM Taqu
argues that you cannot rule out Hashem having a body, not that he does.

And what's funny about it is how much his argument starts the same as the
Rambam's. Both note that we canot underrstand G-d. Therefore the Rambam
takes the road of negatives -- He only has "attributes" that define what
He isn't. And RMT says that therefore we cannot intellectually assess
nevu'ah to say this part must be mashal.

-Micha

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