[Avodah] Rabbiner Hirsch and the Mishna Brura [NishmaBlog]

[Richard Wolpoe]

Dear Readers,

I have just completed reading the Biography of Rabi Samson Raphael
Hirsch. Apparrently
Rabbiner Hirsch bemoaned the fact that the Shulchan Aruch[1] was in 4 parts
and Thereby people were not being holistic in that they neglected vast
tracts of Hosehn Mishpat etc, in their behavior.

While the Mishna Brura pointedly commented on ONLY Orach Haim because he
felt that this was the primary legal text for Jewish People [see hakdamah to
the Mishna Brura.] [2]

There you have it in a nutshell. If you ever meet Jews who are meticulously
observant in their observance of Davening, Shabbos and Pesach, - whilst also
being boorish, dishonest, and downright sleeezy in business - they are
;probably following the Mishna Brura.
OTOH, if you meet well-rounded people who observe only the basics of
Halachah, but are essentially honest, straightforward [glatt yosher] - then
they probably pasken like Rabbiner Hirsch!

Notes:
[1] Although it is popular to attibute this arrangemnt tot he Shulchan
Aruchr - It was actually the Tur who subdivid his work in 4 [actually 4
majors with Orahc Haim sub-divided into 3] and into the the simanin later
used by R. Y. Karoet. al.
[2] Ironically the MB himself was a Ba'al Musar and would probably "rue the
day" that Jews went off in this mis-direction!



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