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(914) 356-2282/0ut of State, call toll free: 800c23 7-714.9 Visa. & MastetCard accepted Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch ? 11 ~l On the twenty-sixth day of Applied to the Jew's relationship to Teves it is a hundred years since the society at large, it took the form of passing of Rabbi Samson Raphael Torah Im Derech Eretz (the use of Hirsch ;111 ~t. There were many in his general culture in the service of lifetime who viewed him with dis­ Torah), to be realized in our educa­ dain, as the champion of outdated tional institutions. Applied to our ideas and a Jost cause. Others communal and organizational con­ admired him as the redeemer and cerns, it meant that the Jewish savior of German Jewry. Still others people's cohesion-nationally, respected his gifted pen and brtlliant regionally, locally-could only be thought. But surely vety few antic­ built on a common loyalty to Torah. ipated that, while much more Applied to the exploration of the famous contemporaries of his have treasures of our sacred herttage, it been almost totally forgotten, Rabbi required that we should seek in it S. R Hirsch would be a toweling the answers to the problems and presence on the Jewish scene a issues of our time. The details of how hundred years later, his ideas the his grand design was to be realized, subject of Intense analysis, his works obviously depended ingreat measure studied-in diverse languages-all on the changing conditions and over the world. And this despite the needs of different times and places. historic upheavals that marked Not so the basic idea itself-he did these hundred years, the destruction not see himself as its ortginator, but of the European Jewry that he knew, merely as chosen to impress it upon and the rtse of new centers of Jewish his age. The Nineteen Letters (pub­ life and Torah study under totally lished in 1836) was the first work new conditions. specifically written to meet the Yet. while his name is a household challenges posed by the modern, word in the Jewish world, this does secular world to traditional Judaism. not mean that there is an under­ But the ideas which it presented so standing of what he stood for. Some tive reactions to the mention of his brllliantly were drawn from the see him as the champion of Orthodox name-there is little real under­ wealth of the Torah's teachlngs­ acculturation to the modem world standing of his teachings. Yes, he did and that is, of course, why they still and interpret "Torah Im Derech stress that the Torah Jew should not have such a dynamic impact. Natu­ Eretz" as mandating a college degree retreat from the world around him, rally, not only the structure of his for every Jew: they view him as a but tty to mold it in accordance with wrtttngs but many of the Insights founding father of what is (or used the compromising demands of that we find in them were ortglnal: to be) called Modem Orthodoxy. Torah. And yes, he argued that the but they had their roots in the Others consider him the drtving Jewish community can only find fullness of Torah. However, the force behind Orthodox separation, unity on the basis of Torah. But one manner in which he presented his and believe that he was only con­ of his descendants, in a recent great vision and how he applied It cerned thatfrumJews should be able article, stressed that these were only in practice-that was where the to "make Shabbos for themselves," aspects of his teachings but not the creativity, wisdom.and total commit­ totally disinterested in the rest of the core.
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