[Avodah] Austritt, TIDE, and Israel

[SBA]

From: Micha Berger < >
T613K at aol.com wrote:
: I am certain that RSRH would NOT permit Orthodox participation in a
: common body with R and C organizations, although he would permit
: Orthodox representatives to run for election to governmental bodies
: like the Knesset....

I am far from certain. Austritt included anti-Zionism. I could picture RSRH
deciding that the Keneset represents an Ism to which Austritt should apply.
>>

In the biography of RSR Hirsch in 'Shemesh Marpeh' it cites a letter he
wrote to one of the early Mizrachist rabbis (I can't recall if it was R'
Kalisher or R Reines) who had been noodging him (and eventually becoming
quite nasty) because RSRH kept ignoring his letters and wasn't prepared to
use his influence on Baron Rothschild to support the 'great mitzvah' of his
idea of Yishuv EY (IIRC).

RSRH eventually replies to him saying "what in your eyes is a great Mitzvah
is in my eyes no small aveireh.."!

Thus I would suggest that the had RSRH lived in our - post establishment of
the Medinah - days, there is more than a probability that he would have
lined up with the EH/Satmar team rather than Agudah..

SBA