[Avodah] Letter of RSRH

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From: "Richard Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com>
>>I see  little evidence that RSRH would have taken a pro-Zionist stance. Then
again,  I would venture to say that if had lived during the Nazi ysv regime
he might  have dropped Austrit.  AISI the Holocaust changed a  lot of  minds
about a lot of things.<<

>>>>>
I doubt that Hirsch would have been a Zionist but he would have seen  
developments in E'Y in a positive light.  As for austritt, I don't see what  the 
Holocaust has to do with it or why it would change anyone's mind on that  subject. 
 Reform and Conservative remain outside of halacha and nothing the  Germans 
did changes that.  I've heard people say, very emotionally, "How  can you not 
consider me Jewish?  Hitler would have killed me!"  --  because of a Jewish 
grandparent, say.  Nevertheless, if the person is not  Jewish, he's not Jewish, 
and if something is not halachic, it's not  halachic.  Hitler is not our posek. 
 
 
The famous psak forbidding joint membership in a body that includes  Orthodox 
and non-Orthodox clergy was issued after the Holocaust  IIRC.






--Toby  Katz
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