Cherem Continued

I can not say that I have any evidence that the idea of Cherem comes from Torah. Unless I hear otherwise, I am going to state that it is not Torah ordained.  I do believe without knowing all of the history that this is an inception by the synagogues in Europe in the 1500s or so to remove a person who they believe is so far away from the righteous practice of Jewish life.
I will recommend a fun book to read called the Coffee Trader by David Liss which is a fictional read that deals with Cherem in the synagogues of Amsterdam in the 1700s.  It was a very thoughtful and enjoyable book and it does in fact discuss cherem.
In this book, a Jew might be put on cherem if for instance he does business with non jewish persons in town.  In another instance, the main community would be imposed with cherem if there was a situation where they gave charity to a lesser regarded immigrant population of jews from the areas such as Poland.  This is the contentions of the day and I do believe that they are quite historically accurate.
Of course noone is put on cherem today for having monetary dealings with non jews and of course charity to any jewish group is regarded as a high priority today.
But in that day, there were issues.
They may not impose cherem forever, but in some cases apparantly the did.  It came with a pricetag and it came with a major conflict in the entire jewish world and for the persons it would disregard.

So its interesting and apparantly the ChaBaD itself wants to bring this back.  I am certain that the fellow who writes the website www.failedmessiah.com is on Cherem.  He is the person who posts the most negative information true in most instances about the ChaBaDs organization.

I must say that I am not interested in being the voice against the ChaBaD on the internet, but I will indeed include commentary that I feel justifies being included in a blog about heresy.  And if there is good fortune, I will even include that in here.

So good fortune to all and hopefully an end to the wicked practice of cherem.... unless it is clearly a Torah axiom.  I am quite convinced this is not so.  So good bye cherem heresy.  I will report you online.