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Light Magazine Article About Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer 8 Light Tamuz 5740 9 explained this same posuk in happened? What wi 11 be reference to the death of King tomorrow? Yoshiyohu, and Rav Yitzchok ben The passing of the Matters­ El'ozor applied it to Rav dorfer Rov . The very name Y ochonon himself. Mattersdorf reminds us that is How can this same statement, the town where the Chasam Sofer which was used to be maspid was revealed to be like one of the King Y oshiyohu who was killed rishonim. In the sense of at the young age of 39, 8 be used in continuity from then we feel as if reference to Rav Yochonon who the sun went down in midday. had been Rosh HaYeshiva for 80 For there is no replacement for w. years?9 the Mattersdorfer Rov. 0 25 Rabbi When the sun sets at the end of Our last links to the great eras :::i f-; the day we expect it to shine again of past generations are being w. the next morning. But if the sun taken away ... I cannot speak any 0::: Dr.Joseph z~ would set at the time of its more. H May HaShem have mercy on < Breuer brightest splendor we would be 0::: f-; mystified. What could have k'lal Yisroel. 1'1!>1:1, i'''T~ i!>t 8. 2 M'lochim 22:1 2 Di1•rey HaYomhn 9. Jggeres Rm• Sh'rira Go'on; but see 34:1. For the tragedy of his unexpected Daros HaRi.~hon·im. See also Nazir 59a. death see 2 Dil'rey HaYomim 35:20-25. His Life in Perspective by Pinchas Wollman - Tsamir RABBI DR. JOSEPH BREUER, The next day, Sunday, some who for over four decades served 10,000 mourners - including as Rov of K'hal Adath Jeshurun rabonim and rebbes from all over in the Washington Heights New York and from out of town Do you neighborhood of Manhattan, died - took part in the l'vaya. In his t~iJ.f~?~ ,· .. at Beth Israel Hospital in New humility, Rabbi Breuer had remember ·'ii~~~}i/il 1 York on Shaboss 3 Iyor 5740, at requested that there be no the age of 98. hespeidim at his funeral. Rav Ever since his late wife's death Shimon Schwab, who has in 5713, Rabbi Breuer had made occupied the rabbinate of K'hal Volume One of Light, issues 1-13, is now available in his home with his daughter and Adath Jeshurun alongside Rabbi book form. It contains a full index - subjects, names, son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Jerry G. Breuer since 5718 (1958) authors, and titles. Bechhofer. Until his last brief announced that Rav Breuer 268 pages, paperback, $6.50 illness, Rabbi Breuer had been would be heeded in death as he giving a regular shi'ur in G'mora had been heeded in life, and Special offer: with each renewal or new subscription to at home for a select group of men, proceeded to read several Light -· accompanied by payment - you may purchase one some of whom had been his chapters of T'hUim. He was copy of Volume One at $5.00. disciples in Frankfurt-on-the- followed by Rav Breuer's eldest Order directly from LIGHT Magazine Main before he left that city in son Mordechai (Marc) Breuer 1939. They acted as shom'rim all who read another kapitel. Chazan P.O. Box C-C that motzo'ey Shaboss. Robert Frankel of the congrega- Brooklyn. N.Y. 11:::19 Allow 8 weeks for delivery. PROF. WOLLMAN-TSAMIR. author of The Graphic History of the Jewish Heritage, was a talmid of Rav Breuer in Frankfurt. Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer 10 Light Tamuz 5740 11 to serve as models for the tion recited the Keil Maley consequences were assimilation the main G'mora shi'ur every Realschule boys. morning to a vort from his Rachamim. and intermarriage. Hirsch was an effective Rabbi Joseph Breuer was born grandfather; it was his way of Rav Breuer was buried at King in 5642 (1882) in Papa (Pupa), imprinting the stamp of Solomon Cemetery in Clifton, e d u c ,at or an d c o mm u n a 1 organizer; one of his great Hungary, one of the seven Hirschian ideology on what was N.J. beside his late wife, the children1 of Rabbi Salomon former Rika Eisenman. accomplishments in Frankfurt to follow. He called his illustrious was the establishment of a Breuer and his wife Sophie. He grandfather, "The Commenta­ Three Generations Realschule - a day and high was brought to Frankfurt in 5650 tor," because of his extraordinary Rabbi Breuer's passing school which grew apace and when his father succeeded his commentaries on the Chumash brought to its end an era of three endured until the Hitler era. His grandfather as rov. At the age of and T'hilim. After that he would generations of rabonim who had literary output was overwhelm­ 21 he was given s'micha by both launch into the G'mora shi'ur. He been active in Frankfurt-on-the­ ing. Its brilliance and profundity his father and Rav Koppel Reich put prodigious mental and M ain, beginning with his created a revolution in Jewish of Budapest. He later studied physical energy into the shakla maternal grandfather, Rav thinking and his works are all philosophy and political economy v'tarya of the G'mora, yet affably at the Universities of Giessen and answered the questions hurled at Shimshon R'foel Hirsch, (5568- classics. Chief among them are 2 5648), protagonist of the his translations into classical Strasbourg. After receiving his him by his erudite students. His principle of Torah im Derech German and commentaries on doctorate in 1905, he began a many talmidim can never forget Eretz. the entire Chumash, T'hilim, and career as a rabbi and educator the lofty spiritual pleasure they Rav S. R. Hirsch, born in the S1'dur. His other great works which was to extend over three­ experienced as they followed him Hamburg in 5568 (1808), came to are The 19 Letters in which he quarters of a century. Following in his quest to resolve the kushyos. Frankfurt in 5611 (1851) to lead a exposes all the ills of Reform, and the death of his father in 1926, Rabbi Breuer published an group of eleven stalwart Jews Horeb in which he describes the Joseph Breuer became dean of impressive array of writings, who had formed a congregation mitzvos and categorizes them in the Yeshiva. including commentaries on of uncompromising Orthodoxy as six categories. He founded a Yirrn'yohu and Y'chezke1:l and on opposed to the strong Reform periodical, Jeschurun, in which At The Frankfurt Yeshiva the piyutim of the Yomim community that had destroyed he regulary published articles to His shi'urim in Frankfurt were N oro'im. During his 35 years of Orthodox life in that city. An strengthen Torah observance, a blend of East and West. He work in Germany, he shunned eloquent fighter against Reform, and expounded his philosophy of devoted the opening minutes of involvement in communal Hirsch led and ultimately won Judaism. His collected articles the struggle for government (Gesammelte Schriften) were recognition of an Orthodox published posthumously in six 1. Rabbi Breuer's five brothers and his Frankfurt. He settled in Eretz Yisroel in community independent of the volumes. only sister all were active in Orthodox 1933, and held positions in the civil service Jewish life. What was unusual for their there. Moses (1884-1958) taught Latin and Reform-dominated Frankfurt Hirsch was succeeded in generation is that all the brothers not only German in high schools and Hebrew Jewish community. Hirsch and Frankfurt by Rabbi Salomon attended university and held doctorates, grammar at the Breuer Yeshiva. He, too, his followers maintained that a Breuer, who came to Germany but were strictly Orthodox. His eldest emigrated to Eretz Yisroel where he Torah-true congregation could from Hungary to study under brother, Raphael (1881-1932) served as taught in high schools. He spent the last Rabbi in Aschaffenburg and published years of his life in Frankfurt. Joshua not remain part of a Jewish Hirsch, and married his translations and commentaries on (1892-1960), a pediatrician, fled from community in whose temples the daughter. Breuer broadened the T'nach, including a commentary on Shir Germany to Cuba, subsequently settling prayers were recited in German, ideological basis of the H irschian HaShirim. Isaac (1883-1946), an in New York, where he opened a medical where the organ was played, community by introducing into it attorney, was a prolific writer on Jewish practice. Hanna Breuer-Meyer was a where all references to Tziyon many of the ideas that had been philosophy and a leader in the Agudath talented writer and youth leader. She died Israel movement. He helped organize and in Frankfurt at the age of 30, a year after and Y'rusholayim had been taught by the Chasam Sofer (Rav presided over the Agudah's labor wing, her marriage. deleted from the prayerbooks, Moshe Schreiber; 5522-5599). He Po'aley Agudath Israel. Samson (1881- 2. Rav Breuer, when asked about and where radical Reformers founded the first yeshiva in 1974) was a professor of physics and attendance at a co-educational college in such as Abraham Geiger Frankfurt with students from mathematics at the Polytechnic Institute the U.S. replied, "Yeihoreig v'al in Karlsruhe and later at the University of "-Ed. preached doctrines whose logical Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania ya'auor. 12 Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer 13 J. N. Storm Window politics, devoting his life secondary school, Yeshiva Rabbi Professional & Door Corp.
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