[Avodah] Seeking source: Rav Hirsch on the Churban

Prof. Levine llevine at stevens.edu
Mon Aug 15 04:59:00 PDT 2011


At 05:24 AM 8/15/2011, R. Joel C. Salomon wrote:

>I found the quote in the Isaac Levy translation of R' Mendel Hirsch's
>Haphtoros, in the introduction to Haftora of Chazon Yeshayahu.  Dr. Levy
>also included Rav Hirsch's essay, which is how I conflated them.
>
>Follow-up question:  Is the concept I mentioned above ("The Jew mourns
>not that the Temple was destroyed, but that it had to be") anywhere
>*explicit* in Rav Hirsch's writings, or is that his son's interpretation?
>
>--Chesky

If it is anywhere, I would think that it would be one of his essays 
on the month of Av in Volume I of the Collected Writings of RSRH.

YL
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