Reply To: Defend Yourself!

GAW – Shall we start with staying within bounds of Halacha (in its diversity, not necessarily the uber-machmir position), not being a kofer/apikores as defined by the Gemoro and Rambam in yad (so not in the modern throwaway sense of either word), having middos tovos and then work from there…

So you have excluded all those who call fellow Yidden “Reshaim Gemurim” just because the (supposed Reshaim) no longer want to pay for them (the namecallers) to sit and learn (and/or want their children to have a better chance of survival) (certainly not Middos Tovos)? And you have included those who would create a Rabbah. I have no proof (myself, it may exist) that Rabbi Saul Lieberman was a Kofer, and should therefore be included.

I’ll grant you that Boruch Spinoza was not a Talmid Chacham.