<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>--- On <B>Thu, 6/30/11, Micha Berger <I><micha@aishdas.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:24:48AM +0300, Ben Waxman wrote:<BR>: From: <A href="http://us.mc1133.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org" ymailto="mailto:Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org">Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org</A> <BR>:> 1--R Hirsch would clearly not be comfortable in a DL/RZ setting <BR><BR>: Yes, Rav Hirsch opposed a movement back to Zion, but that does not<BR>: mean that he would feel the same after the Shoah, and when the medina<BR>: is a reality.<BR><BR>This is empty speculation, but then so is opining about tzadiq vera lo...<BR><BR>RZ violates Austritt. Zionism's success doesn't change that.<BR><BR>Although it is interesting to note how many otherwise-Hirschians were<BR>the founding leadership of Poalei Agudah...</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Until the Holocaust RYBS was in the anti Medinah camp as well. This was the <BR>Shita of R' Chaim and his sons, R' Moshe and R' Velvel (and still is among the Israeli Briskers). But RYBS changed his mind after the holocaust.</DIV>
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<DIV>You're right that there is no way of knowing whether RSRH's views about Austritt would have been moidifed by the Holocaust. Can't prove it one way or the other. But I don't think it is fair to assume he would not have been influenced by the Holocaust and therefore still opposed to it. </DIV>
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<DIV>I believe it is just as legitimate to say he would have been influenced by it as it is to say he wouldn't have been.</DIV>
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<DIV>And as you note, many Hirscheans were among the founding leadership of Poalei Agudah - an organization that obviously supported the state of Israel.</DIV>
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