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Ash's avatar

This was geshmak! You took him, hung him out to dry, and burned the corpse.

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Eli's avatar

“Absent as well is Twersky’s explanation of how Ramabam saw these instructions implicit in the text: when Chazal required the convert be informed of “some commandments”, that must obviously begin, says the Rambam as per Twersky, with “the first and most important commandment of all – a true conception of the oneness of G-d”

If I may point out, this is essentially what the מהרש״א (referenced by the ערוך לנר you quoted) says on the Gemara there.

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