Doc,
R.O.B clearly holds of the more leinient side as he made clear in his post wich stated as follows
“Why take a very strict interpretation of “tinok shenishba”- that is, that the child should NEVER have had any contact with Jews, rather than the more lenient one that says that the lack of Jewish education and surroundings qualify someone as ‘tinok shenishba”, regardless whether he/she had some contact with Jews?
If you go only by the first one, you make thousands of jews sinners,not exactly what we should do at any juncture.if you take the latter view, then , you are giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, which is, incidentally, the Middah of Hakodseh Boruch huh and
Why the chumro indeed”…..
so i asked him if he has a mekor for this line of reasoning (wich i termed as a more leinient view).
Again if anyone would have posted ANYTHING (a sevara or mekor) supporting a more machmir approach i would have asked them for for a mekor as well.
What is so hard for you to understand?