[Avodah] Nissan III

[Yitzchok Levine]

I have posted RSRH's essay Nissan III at 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/nissan_3.pdf

IMO, this essay gives some marvelous insights into Yahadus in general 
and into Pesach in particular.  While I suggest that one will benefit 
from reading the entire essay, you may find Rav Hirsch gives as a 
prerequisite for learning Torah on page 59 of interest.

Do not sit down at the feet of your fathers and your teachers as long 
as you do not stand with them on one and the same soil, the soil of 
the foundation that was laid with Yetzias Mitzraim. Leave the great 
volumes unopened if you do not from the outset bring with you the 
basic sense in which their contents should be studied and can be 
comprehended. Yirah kodemis l'Chochma  is written over the gate that 
leads to the Holy of Holies o(the knowledge of the Law; fear of God 
issued the passport to wisdom!

On page 61 he writes

But, what should be said to the members of this fallen generation 
who, in their apostasy, fancy themselves to be the "progressives," 
and deride the loyal elders as "backward?" To them nothing should be said!

Please see the rest of this essay for more on both topics.

Yitzchok Levine 
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