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<DIV>RZS wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Qaraim of the Rambam's day were hardly
first-generation! How did he<BR>relate to them? Certainly not as the article
we'd discussing suggests.</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>CM notes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Well, the Ramban felt sufficiently comfortable with the Samaritans to have
one of them read the inscription on the Machatsis haShekel he found when he
arrived in Israel that was written in kesav Ivri which is similar to the kesav
of the Samaritans. Perhaps that is not “relating” to them in the sense you
meant, (perhaps just credibility derived from a meisiach lifnei tumo
situation?)</DIV>
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<DIV>Kol tuv</DIV>
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<DIV>Chaiam Manaster</DIV>
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