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<font size=3>At 08:29 AM 6/24/2008, Rn T. Katz wrote:<br>
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It is noteworthy that Rav Shimon Schwab related that the Imrei Emes
once <br>
told him that "the Tzaddik of Frankfurt [Rav Hirsch] was a liebidige
mussar <br>
sefer [a living mussar sefer]." The Gerrer Rebbe's assessment
and awe of Rav <br>
Hirsch should now come as no wonder.<br>
</blockquote>The Imrei Emes was not the only rebbe to hold RSRH is
high esteem.<br><br>
On one occasion, while he was attending the shiurim of Rabbi Simcha Bunim
Schreiber (1843 - 1907), a grandson of the Chasam Sofer and author of
<i>Shevet Sofer,<br>
</i> <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Reb Shraga
Feivel found himself the object of criticism when he was seen studying
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch’s works. Because Rabbi Hirsch wrote
<x-tab> </x-tab>in German vernacular,
his works still occasioned suspicion within the deeply conservative
Hungarian yeshiva world of the day. Reb Shraga Feivel was
<x-tab> </x-tab>summoned to appear before the
yeshivah administration. At his “trial” he enlisted the assistance of an
old Jew living in Pressburg, who testified that thirty
<x-tab> </x-tab>years earlier, when his first wife’s mental
disability forced him to seek permission from one hundred rabbis to take
a second wife, the Divrei Chaim of
<x-tab> </x-tab>Sanz had
advised him to travel to Frankfurt-am-Main to obtain the signature for
Rabbi Hirsch, telling him, “What I am to Galicia, he is to
Germany.”<a name="_ednref1"></a>[i] <br><br>
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<a name="_edn1"></a>[i] <b>Reb Shraga Feivel, the Architect of Torah in
America</b> by Yonoson Rosenblum, Mesorah Publications, Ltd. 2001,
pages 34 – 35. <br>
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Yitzchok Levine</font></body>
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