I can only try
Thanks for your interesting stories. As far as the halacha question, dinei mamunos questions are very intricate and you’d be best off asking a competent rav.
Rabbiof berlin:
It seems you have an unusual knack for distorting or misreading the posts. But maybe I was not so clear, so I’ll try to clarify.
“mmm…”Think BIG” you wrote; (of course,even if someone is not frum he can still be Jewish……nor is he recognized as a Jew) HUH? is he or isn’t he a jew?”
meaning, he IS technically, halachically a Jew without question. But he is not RECOGNIZABLY JEWISH. If you look at him or talk to him you may not know he is a jew, and he may not know it either. (unless you are one of those experts who can always spot a jew by his nose..:) The point of this sentense in the post was to say that when we say “Jews are the best” we dont mean that the Jewish “race ” is a superior race. Saying so would be like what the Aryans claimed. Rather it is the Torah which we keep that makes us the best. Jews by birth, who were raised without torah, behave just like goyim. And a goy, who converts to Judaism are included in the term “Jews are Best”
Also, what in the world does the mishne have to do with anything. Kol Yisroel yesh lahem chelek refers to the world to come. we are talking about how people behave in this world. Weitzman etc, surely received a share in the world to come. I don’t know what type of share, but again, I don’t think they were the focus of this conversation. see thepost by NativeIsrael, it expresses it beautifully. Those organizations are only run by Frum People.
“…einstein even freud may be part of this discussion,sinply becuase Hashem Yisboraxch gave us jews that great matonoh “torah’ and all wisdom, even secular wisodom derives from it. “
This too seems circular.The torah contains all wisdom- true. But does that mean anybody that majors in any wisdom should be part of the discussion?. The fact that Einstien and Freud were Jewish is completely BESIDE THE POINT because they did not study the Torah and extrapolate its wisdom to arrive at their conclusions.