Reply To: About the RCA, I do shudder.

popa- we disagree. The border between halachic matters and non-halachic matters can be hazy but many things are very obvious. Why it should be ‘apikorsus’ escapes me.

You refuse to present any definition of what your distinction is beyond “what is in the shulchan aruch”, which is obviously not a distinction, since even shemita is not in the shulchan aruch. (Your response that it is in the Rambam is troubling–you are aware that the Rambam is not part of the shulchan aruch, yes?)

And of course it is apikorsus if you deny entire parts of the Torah since they happen to not be published by the mechaber.

Look, we can reasonably and legitimately disagree on what things are things that the Torah expects you to conform your behavior to a certain way. But I don’t see you doing that.

(You realize of course that we’ve circled around to agreeing that we should listen to rabbonim about things that are mandated by the Torah, and we just disagree now (if we even do) about what is mandated by Torah.)