[Avodah] Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz on RSRH's 19 Letters

[Arie Folger]

RSM wrote:
> Why is this surprising? Do everybody's writings "do it" for you?
> RSRH certainly doesn't "do it" for me. I'm not sure if it's the effect
> of the translations that I've seen or a feature of the original, but I
> find his style so over-elaborate that I am unable to extract any
> content from it.

That is a feature of the 19th century German, and modern editorialists
are still influenced by that style. However, I grant that in
translation it is even more convoluted, because people do not write
like that in English.

Caveat: I barely read the 19 Letters, and base myself for this comment
on RSRH's style entirely on his commentary to Chumasch, Tehillim and
his Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings), the first and last of
which I occasionally also consulted in English.

-- 
Arie Folger,
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