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benignuman
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“As for the false claim of the oaths not being halacha, we covered this already also. The oaths are brought lihalacha by other poskim. (The lack of presence in Shulchan Aruch does not indicate its Halachic status.) The Rambam certainly believed it’s halacha when he wrote about it in Igeres Teiman. The Maharal said not to violate the oaths even if the nations forced Klal Yisrael to do so.”

I am not claiming that nobody thought the oaths had halachic significance. I am claiming that the major sources of psak halacha held that they did not have halachic significance. Lack of presence in the Tur and the Shulchan Aruch and the Rambam’s halchic works, does mean something. It means that in seeking to codify the halacha, these Giants did not think the oaths were significant enough to include even as an inyan, let alone ikkar hadin.

Can you cite to single psak prior to the advent of Zionism as a political movement that brings the oaths as halacha l’maysa?

In the post Zionism era, outside of the Satmar Rav zt”l, how many poskim bring the oaths as halacha l’maysa? Can you provide citations.