[Avodah] Akum and Nochri

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 08:47:05PM -0400, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> Count me among those who "do not know when something is a din nokhri and
> when it is a din 'aku"m." And I WOULD like to know which is which.

Related is the topic of the famous and infamously overused Me'iri.

He distinguishes between outright aku"m and people who are gedurim
bedarkhei hadas. Which may be non-aku"m, or a subset of aku"m that make
up a third kind of nakhri, with dinim split between unthical akum, aku"m
whose religion teaches ethics, and ethical monotheists. And where would
monotheists whose religion divorces worship of the One G-d from ethics
go? Would they be aku"m, because such a one god isn't The One G-d?

Chodesh Tov!
-Micha

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