<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM Meir Shinnar via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>1. the first person I know who is explicit about actions being primary is Mendelson. While he is viewed now by many as Reform,in his lifetime he was viewed by most to be Orthodox.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To the best of my knowledge, Rav Moshe Mendelssohn himself was most definitely Orthodox (although that term may be a bit anachronistic?), even if his ideas later became important in the development of Reform. The view that he himself was somehow Reform seems to be based primarily on ignorance.<br></div></div></div>