[Avodah] Horaas Shaah

[Prof. Levine]

At 04:27 PM 12/18/2008, Michael Kopinsky wrote:

>But Rav Schwab did know German, and was very familiar with RSRH's writings,
>and was apparently convinced by RBBL's arguments.
>
>KT,
>Michael

Rav Schwab discusses his changing attitude toward TIDE in his article 
TIDE - A Second View which I have posted at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/tide_second_view.pdf

It is not at all clear to me that Rav Schwab was *very* familiar with 
RSRH's writings when he went to Lithuania in 1926 at the age of 18 to 
study in Telshe.  True, he could read German, but reading Rav Hirsch 
in the original high level German idiom in which he wrote could not 
have been easy for anyone, let alone a teenager.

Yitzchok Levine 
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