<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Joseph C. Kaplan <<a href="mailto:jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com">jkaplan@tenzerlunin.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font size="2">"<font size="3">TK: Both you and SBA insisted that Hirsch
would have been Neturei Karta or <br>Satmar in his attitude towards the
modern Israeli state if he were alive <br>today. I am certain that
is NOT true. He would have been RWO, non-Zionist but <br>would have
viewed developments in E'Y as overwhelmingly positive and a sign of
<br>Divine benevolence."</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font size="3">I simply don't understand how anyone can predict
how the Holocaust and the actual creation of the State of Israel would have
affected RSRH's thinking about Zionism. One can as easily say that he
would have become the Honorary President of Mizrachi as say that he would be NT,
Satmar or RWO. Oh, sorry, that was a different gadol who switched
from being a member of the presidium of Agudah to the Honorary President of
Mizrachi after the Holocaust. </font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><font size="3">Joseph Kaplan</font></font></div>
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</blockquote><div><br>I cannot speak for certain as to wWhat RSRH MIGHT have done that is speucalation.<br><br>What I can say for certain is that his grandson Rav Jospeh Breuer was virulently Anti-Zionist -almost as much as Satmar was. I would venture to say that his Brother R. Isaac Breuer might have been far leas anti-Zionist [irc he was a founder/leader of Poalei Agudah]<br>
<br></div></div>I see little evidence that RSRH would have taken a pro-Zionist stance. Then again, I would venture to say that if had lived during the Nazi ysv regime he might have dropped Austrit. AISI the Holocaust changed a lot of minds about a lot of things. <br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>