>>15200874 Kafir
The Hebrew words "kipper" and "kofer" share the same root as "kafir" כִּפֵּר, or K-F-R.
K-P-R is a Semitic root, in Arabic and Hebrew rendered as K-F-R (Arabic: ك-ف-ر; Hebrew: כ-פ-ר).
The basic meaning of the root is "to cover", but it is used in the sense "to conceal" and hence "to deny", and its notability derives from its use for religious heresy or apostasy (as it were describing the "concealment" of religious truth) in both Islam and Judaism.
Kofer may be best translated as "freethinker." In Sanhedrin the kofer is identified as one who asks needling questions and points out contradictions between biblical texts (Sanh. 39a–b). The term kofer ba-ikkar in rabbinic literature refers to one who denies a basic and essential ikkar ("dogma"; on the various formulations of dogmas in Judaism see S. Schechter, Studies in Judaism (1896), 147–81). Maimonides defines a kofer ba-Torah
as someone who denies either the divine inspiration of the Torah or the authority of the Oral Law and the rabbis who teach it, or one who maintains that the legislation of the Torah has been superseded (Yad, Teshuvah, 3:8).
The Islamic use of the idea and word Kafir/Kofer comes from Pharisaic Talmudism which was a dominant ideology in Arabia and Persian Babylon for centuries leading up to the advent of Islam. The evidence of Pharisaic dominance is shown by the taking of 'the holy land' by Pharisaic Talmudists in 614 AD (helped by Persians), just decades before Islam exploded out of Pharisaic Talmudist Arabian Yathrib.
