[Avodah] Seclusion is not the Jewish Way

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

mirskym at sympatico.ca wrote:
> Yitzchok Levine provides source material from RSRH supporting this.  But 
> how does this square with Austritt?  Was the issue that associating with 
> the Reform was more dangerous than Avraham amongst the nations of his time?

Acc. to my understanding of Austritt, it wasn't about fear of influence, 
but more the structural pressures caused by the interplay of community 
and government in religious life at the time, and also the impropriety 
of giving legitimacy to heretical organizations.  RSRH, AFAIK, does not 
say to stay away from Reform Jews as individuals.

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