<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>don't they claim yichus going way back?<br>if we shouldn't marry them, based on yichus, then<br>why should we believe (and thus be able to marry) <br>certain families claiming yichus going way back <br>(like to the vilna gaon or whoever);<br>i would figure that any isolated community, with <br>continual practices going back centuries, very similar<br>or akin to our own, and claiming that they follow toras<br>moshe, should at least on yichus grounds, have the same<br>mesorah value to their validity as say the yemenites, <br>or shomronim, or any other isolated group ....; <br>the key word here being isolated, in that their communities<br>didn't historically accept outsiders (as one poster noted) <br>and this weren't much influenced along the way......<br><br>shouldn't the same limus test apply to all
groups<br>vis a vis validity and marriage, <br>regardless of their ideologies.....<br>i think that since they (and perhaps other non-main<br>stream groups going way back (not reform or conservative)<br>claim to have views that differ from our own, we view them<br>as possibly not being validly jewish.....<br>(eg, hatred or fear of the outsider)<br>-do yemenites have a better chazaka going way back???<br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">-shomronim wikipedia:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan</a></span><br>-karaite wikipedia:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite_Judaism</a></span><br><br></div>
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