Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Yb,

“ CS is [mis]quoting tanya 32 .
It says clearly in tanya 32 that apikorsim there is a mitsva to have tahlit sin’a against them .

CS seems to argue against the tanya …”

Yes he also defines an apikores The way I wrote- someone who was at your level in Torah and mitzvos, you already tried to bring them back by fulfilling the Mitzvah hocheach tochiach (according to the dinim – gently and privately at first, unless making a public chillul Hashem etc) and he refuses to return.

I’ve also heard that the Frierdiker Rebbe said there’s no true apikorsim today- just people using ignorance of Hashem as an excuse for yetzer hara.