<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Doron Beckerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beck072@gmail.com">beck072@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>R' Micha Berger asks for a source that Meisis to Kefirah is worse than Meisis to Avodah Zarah.</div>
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<div>That Kefirah is worse than AZ is in the Rambam's Iggeres Hashmad and in the Ibn Ezra to Parshas Yisro. That it is so regarding hating a Meisis, I have some indirect sources based on the above, but it is Mefurash Yotzei Mipi Kohen Gadol in Chofetz Chaim Hilchos Rechilus Klal 1 in Beer Mayim Chaim 9 that Moshe Rabbeinu hated Dasan and Aviram based on hating a Meisis - Al Achas Kamah V'Kamah based on Ki Bikesh L'hadichachah. He is very explicit that the Mitzvah D'Oraysa is not limited to AZ per se.</div>
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<div>R' Micha Berger asks:</div>
<div><br>>> Applicability? Who preaches that there is more than one god, but one<br>of them went to Moshe in the midbar, taught him kol haTorah kulah,<br>including TSBP, etc... and you must keep the deRabbanans, etc...<br>
Everyone who incites to AZ also incites to other forms of heresy. <<<br></div>
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<div> I could think of forms of AZ B'shittuf, plus Stam inciting someone to give in to his Taava in the times of Bayis Rishon.<br> <br>Applicability L'maaseh - Daat Emet.</div></div>
<br></blockquote></div><br>FWIW We had this debate on avodah re: which is worse kefirah or AZ.<br><br>I'm not sure re: ancient pagan cults, but wrt to the modern religions [Xtianity, Islam] it seems obviosu to me that for a homo religioso [RYBS's term] some kind of structured relgiion is superior to atheism any day.<br>
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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