[Avodah] Horaas Shaah

[Yitzchok Levine]

One often hears Torah Im Derech Eretz (TIDE) being labeled a Horaas 
Shaah. RSRH did what he did because of the times that he lived in. 
However,  TIDE is really not the "true" Torah way.

Rabbi Shelomo Danziger  turns things around. On page 106 of his essay 
Rav S.R. Hirsch -His TIDE Ideology,  he writes

"We should go our own way, convinced of the correctness and relevance 
of TIDE as the ideal Torah system, as the l'Chatchilah. We should 
promote it as such vigorously, no less aggressively than the 
nonHirschian Yeshiva world and Chassidic groups, who see themselves 
as l'Chatchilah and others as b'dieved. We may respectfully grant the 
usefulness, and indeed, the hidden blessing of the non-Hirschian 
approach as a Horaas Shaah."

May I suggest that you read the entire essay at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/danziger_tide.pdf before commenting?

Yitzchok Levine 
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