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<font size=4><b>Clarification of R. Hirsch's Concepts - A Rejoinder by
Rabbi S. Danziger <br><br>
</a></b></font><font size=3>There is a popular notion that, unlike
Hasidism and Musar, which attempted to deepen the religious experience of
the Jew, the Hirschian system aimed at merely preserving Judaism against
the onslaught of Western culture. It is our conviction that this notion
is erroneous. Study of R. Hirsch's writings and commentaries has been for
many a most effective source of Musar, deepening our spiritual grasp of
Judaism. At any rate, the deepening of spiritual experience is the very
basis of R. Hirsch's conception, and the very result of the careful study
of that conception.<br><br>
This should be the goal, the task of all disciples of Rabbeinu Hirsch,
who still are, with certain illustrious exceptions, far from the
spiritual depth, in the study of Torah and in the observance of Mitzvot,
which R. Hirsch demanded.<br><br>
This article was written in 1963. <br>
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Yitzchok Levine </font></body>
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