Message 4, February 18, 2010, 5:01:54PM
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> [יִרְמְיָה, Yirmĭyahu. 31:37]
> [סנהדרין-Sanhedrin 44a]
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> [R. She’ adyá ben Maimon ibn Danan, Khemdah Genuzah, 15a]
In views of Divine, Prophetic, Talmudic and post-Talmudic understanding, an apostate Israelite is still an Israelite. It follows that an Anous, who was forced into avoda zara / foreign cult, and their children who are born in a state of duress among non-Jews, are also Israelites:
> [R. Abraham de Aboab – year 1694 — Deber Shemuel, No. 45(S. 18c f.)]
It hardly ever occurred to the Sages of Israel in the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Algiers, Morocco, Amsterdam, London – in fact every where the most brilliant luminaries of our tradition flourished – to call Anusim “gentiles” much less “proselytes”. Because, as received in the mouth of Rabbi Samuel de Medina from his teacher R. Taytazak, as confirmed by Gaon Zemah, in relation to the Anusim:
