1. There are those who would claim that Dor Daim and even all students of the [[Rambam]] are heretics by reason of their non-acceptance of Zohar and Lurianic Kabbalah.<ref>See for example Chaim Kanievsky, ''Derech Emunah'' p.30.</ref> This claim depends is based on the assumption that the [[Isaac Luria|Luria]]nic [[Kabbalah]] is a dogma of Judaism , binding upon all Jews. Not only the Dor Daim and ''talmide ha-Rambam'', but many other Orthodox groups, such as the followers of the Vilna Gaon and many Modern Orthodox, would disagree with this assumption, whether or not they personally accept the Lurianic Kabbalah.
The Dor Dai response is that whether a person or school is heretical is a question of law, to be decided according to authoritative works of halakha: one is not a heretic simply for disagreeing with a widely held Aggadah interpretation, unless the ''halakha'' specifically says so. The Mishneh Torah is comprehensive in scope and is, at the very least, ''one'' of the authoritative sources of ''halakha'', so to follow it must be an acceptable way of doing Judaism. Accordingly, since the Dor Daim assert nothing that is not found within the four corners of the Mishneh Torah, and the Mishneh Torah cannot be interpreted as actually requiring belief in anything approaching Zoharic or Lurianic Kabbalah, they cannot be heretics - unless the Mishneh Torah itself is heretical, which is not held by any mainstream Jewish group.
