Reply To: Let's make YCT teshuvas, by popa

Lieberman was certainly a talmid chochom before he defected. I am uncomfortable using that term after he defected. (It connotes to me learning for Hashem).

Lieberman was almost certainly personally a shomer torah umitzvos, as were many of the original conservative leadership. Moreover, he probably believed in G-d, in torah m’sinai, and probably in a torah sh’baal peh m’sinai.

Nevertheless, he was also almost certainly also an apikores after his defection.

I could be wrong about this; it really doesn’t mean anything to me one way or the other.