<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Yitzchok Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Levine@stevens.edu">Larry.Levine@stevens.edu</a>></span> 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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One often hears Torah Im Derech Eretz (TIDE) being labeled a Horaas
Shaah. RSRH did what he did because of the times that he lived in.
However, TIDE is really not the "true" Torah
way.<br><br>
Rabbi Shelomo Danziger turns things around. On page 106 of his
essay <b>Rav S.R. Hirsch -His TIDE Ideology, </b> he writes<br><br>
<font size="3">"We should go our own way, convinced of the correctness
and relevance of TIDE as the ideal Torah system, as the l'Chatchilah. We
should promote it as such
</font><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica"><i>vigorously, </i>no less
aggressively than the nonHirschian Yeshiva world and Chassidic groups,
who see themselves as
</font>l'Chatchilah<font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica"> and others as
b'dieved. We may respectfully grant the usefulness, and indeed, the
hidden blessing of the non-Hirschian approach as a Horaas
Shaah."<br><br>
May I suggest that you read the entire essay at
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/danziger_tide.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/danziger_tide.pdf</a> before
commenting?<br><font color="#888888">
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Yitzchok Levine</p></font></font></div>
</blockquote></div><br>AIUI, Rav Schwab shifted, too. Originally he thought it was a hora'as sho'oh but later accepted TIDE as a lechatchila.<br><br>Certainly R. Y. Breuer considered it a lechatchilah all along.<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><br><br>