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On 10/6/2011 12:50 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org">Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org</a> wrote:
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2">discussion on emes v'emunah blog
on this article, and the relevant question is--- how
much knowledge/practice is enough to make one lose
tinok shenishba status, and therefore incur liability
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2"> the most
machmir position i ever heard was a rov who
said in this era [this was before internet yet] so much
jewish info is available , no one should get a presumption
of 'ignorance of the law'....</font><font size="2"><font
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I was talking with Rav Mendel Blachman in Israel once, and I asked him
if my father, for example, would be considered a tinok she'nishba. He
asked me, "Does your father know that Jews are supposed to keep
kosher?" Yes. "Does he keep kosher?" No. "So no, when it comes to
kashrut, he isn't."<br>
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My first thought was that maybe my initial answer that he knows Jews
are supposed to keep kosher isn't 100% accurate. He knows it, but does
he know that it's a mandatory obligation rather than just a cultural
ritual? I don't know for sure.<br>
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My second thought was that the idea that a person could be considered a
tinok she'nishba in some areas and not in others was a fascinating
chiddush, and that whether the sources support it or not, it makes a
good deal of logical sense.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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