Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!wkp From: wkp@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Hypocrisy--or, who is a mamzer? Message-ID: <22627@lanl.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:57:17 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.22627 Posted: Fri Mar 1 09:57:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:21:01 EST References: <22536@lanl.ARPA> <3780016@csd2.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 22 th also agree to this principle. (I believe that their view was that such a Jew was therefore not part of the covenant, and HAD TO UNDERGO A RITUAL BRIT MILAH (the shedding of blood from the foreskin, etc.). Since the Lubavitchers are part of the Theocratic Politicos calling for a ritual immersion for the Ethiopians, my charge of hypocrisy still stands. 2. Again, it was my understanding that a Jew born of a Jewess not following Taharat Mishpachah was a mamzer. Can someone give me sources for this? I remember reading it in a yeshiva class; also Martillo mentioned it once on the net. (My talmud is in Jerusalem). Thanks in advance to anybody who can help. --- bill peter {ihnp4,seismo}!cmcl2!lanl!wkp "Ben Azzai said, 'Do not be scornful of any person and do not be disdainful of anything, for there is no person without his hour and no thing without its place.'" ---