<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">In Avodah V32n53, RDrYL responded to me:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>> RDrYL, kindly (a) define "Hirschian" and (b) list actual facts either</span></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">
</div>supporting or not supporting your "RSS was a Hirschian" theorem.  Thanks.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">
> </div>For a definition of Hirschian, please read some of the essays that</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">are at </span><a href="http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">You might start with</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Torah with Derekh Eretz by Mordechai Breuer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><</span><a href="http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/torah_with_derekh_eretz_m_breuer.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/torah_with_derekh_eretz_m_breuer.pdf</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">and The "Torah-Im-Derekh-Eretz" of Samson Raphael Hirsch by Mordechai</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Breuer</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><</span><a href="http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/m_breuer_tide.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/m_breuer_tide.pdf</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For support of the fact that Rabbi Shimon Schwab was a Hirschian read</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">please read TIDE - A Second View</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">
<span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><</span><a href="http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/tide_second_view.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/tide_second_view.pdf</a><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span> <</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Thanks.  The answer to (a) includes both philosophy and action (if you wish, both "doxy" and "praxy") in the <i>hashqafah</i> we call TiDE; it also includes both one's personal efforts in becoming an "Israel-Man" and one's efforts to influence others (including but not limited to the educational system).  RSS may have changed his mind during or around 1990 on whether TiDE was a <i>hora'as sha'ah</i>, but I never saw any evidence that he changed his "praxy" as a result (not that it would have much mattered -- he had already passed on the leadership of YRSRH, not to mention KAJ, and did not [have the opportunity to] rectify what had been done in the decades prior to his mind-change) -- is that essay all the evidence you can muster?  Thanks.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255)">All the best from</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#9900ff"><i>Michael Poppers</i></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> * </span><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Elizabeth, NJ, USA</font></div>
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