<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 22, 2007 8:20 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:34:06PM +0200, Daniel Eidensohn wrote:<br>: R' Zev Sero wrote:<br>: > I have heard from a reliable source, in the name of Dayan Abramsky,<br>: > that "today, anyone who does not believe in the Baal Shem Tov's shita
<br>: > in hashgacha pratis [i.e. the one that the Chinuch rejected] is an<br>: > apikores".<br>: ><br>: ><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Well,ein ledavar sof!<br>There are those that say TODAY any Ashkenaz who says Machnisei Rachamim is a kofer as per Rambam. Then there are those that say with the advent of the Arizal anyone who follows Rambam is an apikoros. But a former Rosh Yeshiva at YU states that if you DON"T follow the Rambam's 13 ikkarim [apparently as articualted by the Rambam himself] you are an apikoros. But that of course that would include anyone who says machniesi Rachamim! Thus, Rav Breuer and Rav Schwab and most yekkes [and Litvaks?] who faithfully follow Minhag Ashkenaz are in violation of v'hu levado ra'uy ...
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