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<font size=3>At 04:40 PM 9/4/2018, Micha Berger wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at
12:32:17PM +0000, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:<br>
: The following is from pages 567 -- 568 of the sefer Rav Schwab on
Chumash.<br><br>
:> Judaism without Torah is "just another religion," and is
not in consonance<br>
:> with the will of G-d. Ritual is common to all religions; the
unique<br>
:> quality of Yiddishkeit is the special relationship with Hashem that
a<br>
:> Jew achieves only through Torah study.<br><br>
It would appear that R Schwab does not take "Judaism is not a
religion" as<br>
literally as you do. After all, he describes it here as a religion,
if<br>
one with a unique quality.</font></blockquote><br>
You have reached an incorrect conclusion regarding Rav Schwab's
views regarding RSRH's brilliant assertion that Judaism is not a
religion, which, by the way, Rav Hirsch makes in a number of places
in his writings.<br><br>
The sefer Rav Schwab on Chumash was written by one of his son's , Rabbi
Myer J. Schwab. In the Forward to the book it says,
"Approximately forty percent of the <i>divrei Torah</i> in the
<i>Ma'ayin Beis Hasho'evah </i>has been adapted and included in this
<i>sefer. </i>Some of the pieces have retained their original
format, and some have been reformulated. In a number of cases, the
lessons are totally new, and others may differ from the Hebrew text,
based upon the way I heard and understood them directly from my
father, <i>zt"l." <br><br>
</i>The paragraph you quoted is not taken directly from the
writings of Rav Schwab, which is the case for the rest of what I
posted. Thus, it is faulty for you to conclude that
"<font size=3>It would appear that R Schwab does not take 'Judaism
is not a religion' as literally as you do." <br><br>
Furthermore, I could assert logically that the statement Judaism
without Torah is just another religion does not imply that Judaism with
Torah is a religion!<br><br>
I am certain that Rav Schwab agreed totally with RSRH's brilliant insight
that Judaism is not a religion. <br><br>
Indeed, it is most important that all of us realize that Judaism is not a
religion and why this is so.<br><br>
YL<br><br>
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