Reply To: Cheilek Eloak Mima’al

Nochum- You seem to be making several points.
1) If you don’t believe in Hashem you are still a Yid.
Of course, but if you believe heretical ideas you are a Yid who is nebach a kofer.
2) The sentence in Tanya which says the neshama is a חלק א-לוק ממעל ממש has to be taken in context.
I agree, and I am not qualified to discuss the Tanya, but I have seen people who tried to argue, based on the context, that the Tanya never meant the neshama is literally part of Hashem.
3) The Baal Hatanya was not a kofer.
Agreed, but the fact that someone was moser nefesh for Yiddishkeit as he understood it does not necessarily prove he wasn’t a kofer. I don’t think he was a kofer because I don’t think anyone has said that since the initial charamim against the Chasidim died down almost 200 years ago.
4) People who think all Chabadniks are kofrim are wrong.
I wasn’t trying to bash Chabad as a whole. The last point you made is irrelevant to the discussion at hand and it is a shame to make this thread into yet another one where Chabadniks and misnagdim bash each other. Neither side is going to convince anyone, so that is a huge waste of time.