[Avodah] Non-zionistic TIDE rabbonim

[SBA]

From: T613K at aol.com
.. my personal opinion is that Hirsch would have done  what 
99% of charedi leaders do, which is to accept the fact of a government
which 
must be dealt with because there is no realistic alternative.  
 
I also believe that he would have seen the events of the 20th century in
E'Y 
as a mixture of ohr vechoshech mishtamshim be'irbuvya, not purely the  work 
of the Satan -- that he would have seen the many positive developments  as a

bracha from Hashem and a sign of His continuing love of His people,
"metzitz 
min hacharakim." I admit that that whole last paragraph has no source other
than my gut  
feeling, based on the emanations of penumbras from the corpus of Hirsch's
writings.
>>

I am not so sure. 
In a letter to Reb Yaakov Lipschitz he writes that he had replied to Rav Zvi
Kalisher
- who kept 'noodging' him for help with his Yishuv EY campaign (going as far
as accusing RSRH of being 'me'akev the Geula),
that what you (RZK) consider a great mitzva - is in my eyes no small
aveireh.

Being the principled and unbending person that he was, there must be some
doubt on how he would have viewed the final result of a 'no-small-aveireh'
medineh.

SBA