To reinforce our words we will quote the Chazon Ish in Laws of - TopicsExpress



          

To reinforce our words we will quote the Chazon Ish in Laws of Ritual Slaughter, paragraph two, section 18: Maimonides added to the law [that certain people should be actively killed] heretics; and in Laws of Murderers he wrote about heretics who reject the Torah and prophecy...It is possible that those who are heretics...even if [they were driven to it] on account of their appetites are like those who reject the whole Torah since they have thrown off the yoke of Torah. A heretic has no share in the Torah of Moses, for if he has no faith he has nothing... For the sin of heresy is a sin intended to spite [the Heavens]: the whole matter of to spite [the Heavens] is forming within oneself an objection to observance of any of the commandments; all the more so for forming within oneself heresy [regarding the commandments as a whole]...The rule about one who rejects the Oral Torah, according to the Rashba...is like one who rejects the entire Torah... It seems that the one who does not believe in the words of our rabbis OBM of whom the Rashba spoke is one who does not believe in the Jewish way of life established by the Sages, the Torah and the commandments, which is included in the category of heresy, that is, rejection of the Torah... It is clear that according to the Chazon Ish, a heretic (kofer) is a person who does not believe in the way of life established by Chazal on the basis of the Torah. Todays secular Jew does not live according to the Torah but according to the just laws of his country. Halacha and the Torah make no difference to him and he does not live according to their laws.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:52:04 +0000

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