[Avodah] R' Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Imrei Emes (Gerrer Rebbe)

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Prof. Levine <llevine at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Yitzchok LevineAt 08:29 AM 6/24/2008, Rn T. Katz wrote:
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>
> It is noteworthy that Rav Shimon Schwab related that the Imrei Emes once
> told him that "the Tzaddik of Frankfurt [Rav Hirsch] was a liebidige
> mussar
> sefer [a living mussar sefer]."  The Gerrer Rebbe's assessment and awe of
> Rav
> Hirsch should now come as no wonder.
>
>
What is interesting is that Yekkes by and large learn little mussar at all.
They just practice a very polite and proper way of life.  I wonder if 1,000
mussar books are worth a few ounces of actual practice ingrained into a
community.

After leaving a very pollite/coureeous society in West Hartford to go to
various Yeshivos, the first [and one of the only] community that gave me the
feel of  "home" was  the Washington Heights community in  which  people
naturally had a sense of etiquette.

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