[Avodah] We should all be Hirschians

[Prof. Levine]

At 03:28 PM 12/16/2008, T613K at aol.com wrote:
>It is true that at some level, "we are all Hirschians now."   Every 
>ArtScroll book that is written in English was written by somebody 
>who received a secular education.  The same is true of the people 
>who write for the English-language Yated.  The charedi community may 
>not consciously realize that they are actually Hirschians, but they are.

Being a Hirschian is much, much more than having a secular education 
and working.  See Rabbi Danziger's brilliant article 
<http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/danziger_tide.pdf>Rav S. 
R. Hirsch - His TIDE Ideology  that I have posted at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/danziger_tide.pdf  This is, 
IMO, the best exposition of what TIDE is that I have read.

Just because one has a secular education, and advanced degree, works 
and learns regularly does not mean that he or she is a follower of 
TIDE as espoused by R. Danziger.
>
>I would like to point out that R' Krugman is totally charedi and 
>lives in a charedi community in Yerushalayim.  True TIDE calls for 
>close identification with a dedicated, intensive Torah community.
>

>As Rav Schwab pointed out, it says "Yafeh Talmud Torah Im Derech 
>Eretz." Rabbiner Hirsch, Rabbi Dr. Salomon Breuer, Rabbi Dr. Yosef 
>Breuer, Rav Schwab, Dr. Leo Levi, Dayan I. Grunfeld, etc. were all 
>strong proponents of "close identification with a dedicated, 
>intensive Torah community."


The subject of my message was "We should all be Hirschians,"  not "We 
are all Hirschians now." There is a big difference in my mind.

Yitzchok Levine 
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