Gedoylim Take Over Yekkish Community
Rabbi Hirsch not frum enough for Daas Toyrah.
The Jewish Press reports,
Speaking at the 200th birthday celebration of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch this past Shabbos, Khal Adath Jeshurun’s Rav Yisroel Mantel declared that the philosophical credo of Rav Hirsch, Torah Im Derech Eretz, is not viable in the absence of its chief advocate.
Rav Hirsch was a 19th century champion of Orthodoxy and the founder of Khal Adath Jeshurun’s parent community in Frankfurt, Germany.
Rav Mantel’s declaration, which angered many in the community, came at a sit-down kiddush at Dr. Raphael Moller Hall in Washington Heights after Shabbos morning services. He said that only Rav Hirsch, a great man who knew the fine boundaries between what is religiously permissible and what is prohibited, could make Torah Im Derech Eretz workable.
Our generation, he said, must follow today’s gedolei HaTorah (great Torah leaders).
After Shabbos, Dr. Eric Erlbach, KAJ president for over two decades, resigned.
Stupid Yekkes. You scorned Yeshiva University all these years for this shit? Now they will be just another dime a dozen community of dysfunctional heimeshes.
2 comments
Casually tossing Torah im Derech Eretz out the window on the birthday of its chief proponent and architect is definitely a new dimension for the word ballsy.
Yet another rabbi gives up on G-d’s creations and decides they are too stupid to figure out things for themselves and have to stop thinking and just obey.
Either that or they just want power for themselves.
Or both more likely.
Just ducky…
this Mantel dude is clearly on a power trip.
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