[Avodah] Horaas Shaah

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Yitzchok Levine <Larry.Levine at stevens.edu>wrote:

>  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
>

AIUI, Rav Schwab shifted, too. Originally he thought it was a hora'as sho'oh
but later accepted TIDE as a lechatchila.

Certainly R. Y. Breuer considered it a lechatchilah all along.

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