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<DIV>In a message dated 2/14/2008 [the subject line was "Sefer HaChinuch on why
2 weeks Nidah for a girl and only 1 for a boy"], gershonseif@yahoo.com
writes:</DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>[quoting old TK]: >>Some people
think that if you say Chazal or Ramban or the Sefer Hachinuch were wrong about
some scientific fact, then you are being disrespectful to them. I was
raised with a completely different understanding and a different
attitude...<<</FONT></FONT><B><I></I></B><BR><BR>R' Gershon Seif: I'm
not surprised by that. Just wondering, did your father zt"l ever discuss this
subject with any Rebbes from Ger? I doubt it, but please correct me if I'm
wrong. Did he ever discuss with you how he made peace with being a chossid in
some matters and a Hirschian in others - especially in areas where they
conflict in a big way - such as the current Torah/Science
tzimmes?<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>I never answered this letter but just came across it again now. My
father did not explicitly discuss with me how he reconciled Ger with
Hirsch. As a girl I saw a seamless whole and did not realize that there
/had/ to be seams there, I just didn't know about them.</DIV>
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<DIV>Coincidentally I just tonight read the recent Mishpacha article
about RSRH and it says there:</DIV>
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<DIV>In a recent article in Mishpacha, commemorating the 60th yahrzeit of the
Imrei Emes zt'l, journalist Aharon Granevich-Granot quotes the Imrei Emes as
saying: "When I arrive in the Heavenly beis din and they ask me, 'What did
you achieve in your lifetime in this world?' I will answer, 'Agudas Yisrael, the
Yesodei Hatorah Talmud Torah, and the Bais Yaakov schools!' " Ironically,
two out of the three items that this chassidic giant cited as the biggest
accomplishments of his lifework are directly linked to Rav Hirsch: Agudath
Israel and Bais Yaakov.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is noteworthy that Rav Shimon Schwab related that the Imrei Emes once
told him that "the Tzaddik of Frankfurt [Rav Hirsch] was a liebidige mussar
sefer [a living mussar sefer]." The Gerrer Rebbe's assessment and awe of
Rav Hirsch should now come as no wonder.</DIV>
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<DIV>==end quote==</DIV>
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<DIV>The only thing I have to add is that my father was born as the result of a
bracha from the Imrei Emes. A small framed photograph of the Imrei Emes
stood on my father's desk all the years I can remember.</DIV>
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