Monday, June 14, 2010

Rav Kook / RADVAZ - It's ossur to criticize a kofer!

An amazing find - page 55 in Maamarei Hariyah (hilchos Tzibur):

(sorry, can't type the original in Hebrew)

Kol shetoeh be'eyuno, ayn olov onesh, vecholiloh levazoso, afilu im hatous he beinyan shel ikar

Anyone who makes a mistake in his 'investigations' (i.e. into hashkafah), has no sin, and it's forbidden to humiliate him, even if the mistake is in one of the fundamentals of faith.

He also explains that if someone is genuinely searching for truth, even if he makes a mistake in a fundamental of faith, he gets no punishment, because he is genuinely searching for truth, and so is like an 'onus' (i.e. forced). However, can a chareidi or RWMO person be counted as someone genuinely searching for truth? I don't think so. Such people therefore would not qualify for the RADVAZ's hetter.

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