[Avodah] moon and sun

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Thu Aug 25 07:38:27 PDT 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:13:40AM -0400, I wrote:
: I want to raise an interesting (to me) side-point. The MC was either a
: Maskil (of the original sort, not the kind who made such problems for
: the Yeshiva and Mussar movements decades later) or had enough similarities
: in his thought for Rn Dr Bruria Henkin to make a sound argument in her
: PhD thesis (which had her father's haskamah) that he was....

Thanks to R' Saul Guberman for catching this error. The thesis is by Rn
Dr Buria Hutner David. (I was thiking "Hutner" when I typed "Henkin";
2nd error: I thought the thesis predated her marriage.)

In any case, the thesis is "The Dual Role of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes:
Traditionalist and _Maskil_", available (thanks to R' Shaya Potter)
at <http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~spotter/david-chajes.pdf>.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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