[Avodah] Austritt, TIDE, and Israel

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:53 PM, SBA <sba at sba2.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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



Many in the Breuer  community likened Rav Breuer's stand to be ALMOST
Satmar/neturei karta in opposition fo zionism [at least pre-1948 if not
beyond].  I suspect that is the single biggest rift between Breuer's and YU
- although many will claim it is about more lofty ism's such as TIDE vs.
TuM.

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