[Avodah] Yahrtzeit of Reb Yisroel Salanter is this Shabbos

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:38:09AM -0500, David Riceman wrote:
[Quoting, indirectly, from my blog:]
>> Rav Yisrael Salanter, despite his own antipathy for Haskalah


> Do you have any evidence of this supposed antipathy?

See the discussion at <http://lvov.judaica.spb.ru/salanter-en.shtml>.

Or, from Glenn's biography of RYS
http://www.yasharbooks.com/salanter%20excerpt1.html .

Or Etkes's bio, ch. 10.

It's unclear if he was against Englitenment, or simply believed that the
old-style yeshiva was the only way to produce rabbanim. He could, as many
in the YU world do today, have believed in academic study for those who
already "filled their stomachs" on classical learning to the point of
already knowing how to learn in the traditional style. His objection to
Haskalah may have been based on its being a replacement; and would have
been okay with Enlightenment as an enhancement.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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