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

So I actually have a relative who was a big cheese in JTS 30-50 years ago (or so). And this relative was shomer torah umitzvos. Moreover, a professor who studied in JTS and knew him, told me with awe that my relative was “a ?????”.

But, was my relative not an apikores? He was willing to tell other people that they could be mechallel shabbos, without any intellectually honest reasoning. Someone who is kofer in the transmission of the gemara as the authoritative torah sh’baal peh, is a kofer. I would dare say this relative must have been a kofer.