Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
In early 19th century Germany, many communities found themselves in conflict between traditional Judaism and the new Reform movement. Finding the balance between living a Torah life and a German life thus became the great challenge of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch’s life.
Born in , in Hamburg, Germany, Rabbi Hirsch attended public school and received a full Jewish education at home. When he completed his studies, Hirsch decided to train for the rabbinate under Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger. After six years with Rabbi Ettlinger, he began studying languages, history and philosophy at the University of Bonn.
Rabbi Hirsch served as rabbi in several communities. His greatest impact was made when he served as the rabbi of Frankfurt-on-Main (from until his death in ). The Frankfurt community had been ravaged by the bitter division between traditional Jews and the new Reform movement. Rabbi Hirsch quickly created Jewish schools, ritual baths and kosher slaughter houses, while at the same time meeting modernity’s challenge by wearing clerical robes, delivering sermons in German and encouraging Bible study alongside Talmud.
Rabbi Hirsch is best known for his concep
Guest Post by Paul Shaviv
| Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch |
Paul J. Shaviv M.A., is the headmaster of The Ramaz School. Ramaz is a coed Modern Orthodox day school located on the the upper East Side of Manhatan. On the occasion of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch&#;s upcoming Yahrzeit, he has submitted this essay. I am honored to publish it here. His words follow.
Away from home, and invited to speak at Seudah Shlishit, I did what I always do in such circumstances &#; check whose Yahrzeits occur a few days before or after Shabbat! This week, there is a veritable roll-call of figures.
But Monday, December 30 -- 27th Tevet &#; is the th Yahrzeit of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch ztz&#;l, who died in
Hirsch was probably the most original, profound and revolutionary figure in modern Orthodox thought. (Does Rabbi Jonathan Sacks hold the promise of being his equal?) Whether aware of it or not, almost every reader of this blog is, in part, indebted to him. If you attended both yeshiva and college; if you daven in a shul where the derashot and the shiurim are in English; or if you are observant and enjoy general culture with
German rabbi; born at Hamburg June 20, ; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, His father, though a merchant, devoted much of his time to Hebrew studies; his grandfather, Mendel Frankfurter, was the founder of the Talmud Torah in Hamburg and unsalaried assistant rabbi of the neighboring congregation of Altona; and his granduncle, Löb Frankfurter, was the author of several Hebrew works. Hirsch was a pupil of Ḥakam Bernays, and the Biblical and Talmudical education which he received, combined with his teacher's influence, led him to determine not to become a merchant, as his parents had desired, but to choose the rabbinical vocation. In furtherance of this plan he studied Talmud from to in Mannheim under Jacob Ettlinger. He then entered the University of Bonn, where he studied at the same time as his future antagonist, Abraham Geiger.
In Hirsch was elected chief rabbi ("Landrabbiner") of the principality of Oldenburg, where he remained until , when he was elected chief rabbi of the Hanoverian districts of Aurich and Osnabrück, with his residence in Emden. During this period he wrote his "Neunzehn Briefe über Judenthum," which were published, under the pseudonym of "Ben Usiel
Rabbiner Samson Raphael Hirsch
Rabbiner Samson Raphael Hirsch ( 6. Hamburg - Frankfurt/M.) war der bedeutendste Theoretiker und organisatorische Kopf der Neuorthodoxie.
Nach dem Besuch der Jeschiwah in Mannheim, begann Samson R. Hirsch das Studium der klassischen Sprachen, der Geschichte und der Philosophie in Bonn. Seit wirkte er als Rabbiner in Oldenburg. wurde er als Hannoverscher Landrabbiner für die Provinz Ostfriesland nach Emden berufen. übernahm er das Landrabbinat von Nikolsburg in Mähren.
wurde Hirsch Rabbiner der orthodoxen "Israelitischen Religionsgesellschaft" in Frankfurt, die er in den folgenden Jahren zu einer orthodoxen Modellgemeinde ausbaute.
war Hirsch Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Jeschurun", eines "Monatsblatts zur Förderung jüdischen Geistes u. Lebens in Haus, Gemeinde u. Schule".
Gedenktafel für die Samson-Rafael-Hirsch-Schule in Frankfurt/M ().
Er begriff die Torah als Lebenszentrum des Judentums und sprach sich für die strenge Einhaltung der religiösen Gebote aus. Gleichwohl waren für ihn weltliche Kenntnisse und weltliche Kultur integrale Bestandteile der jüdischen Weltans
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