[Avodah] Popular Misconception About the Hirschian System

[Prof. Levine]

 From 
<http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/Clarification%20of%20RSRH_danziger.pdf>Clarification 
of R. Hirsch's Concepts - A Rejoinder by Rabbi S. Danziger

There is a popular notion that, unlike Hasidism and Musar, which 
attempted to deepen the religious experience of the Jew, the 
Hirschian system aimed at merely preserving Judaism against the 
onslaught of Western culture. It is our conviction that this notion 
is erroneous. Study of R. Hirsch's writings and commentaries has been 
for many a most effective source of Musar, deepening our spiritual 
grasp of Judaism. At any rate, the deepening of spiritual experience 
is the very basis of R. Hirsch's conception, and the very result of 
the careful study of that conception.

This should be the goal, the task of all disciples of Rabbeinu 
Hirsch, who still are, with certain illustrious exceptions, far from 
the spiritual depth, in the study of Torah and in the observance of 
Mitzvot, which R. Hirsch demanded.

This article was written in 1963.

Yitzchok Levine
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