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Samson Raphael Hirsch (Hebrew: שמשון רפאל הירש; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism.
Jun 16, 2024 · Samson Raphael Hirsch was a major Jewish religious thinker and founder of Trennungsorthodoxie (Separatist Orthodoxy), or Neo-Orthodoxy, a theological system that helped make Orthodox Judaism viable in Germany. Hirsch was a rabbi successively in Oldenburg, Emden, Nikolsburg, and Frankfurt am Main.
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Samson Raphael Hirsch: The Father of Neo-Orthodoxy. The 19th-century rabbi who shaped a modern Orthodox community in bridging traditional practice and Enlightenment thinking. By Rabbi Louis Jacobs
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Through the education of his teachers, considered German Jewry's greatest Talmudists, who were proficient in both non-Jewish and Jewish culture, Hirsch decided to train for the rabbinate with the aim of demonstrating that traditional Judaism and Western culture are compatible with each other.
To traditional Jewry, Germany had become a spiritual wasteland. It needed a prophet to take it out of the chaos and restore order. That savior came in the form of a very original, strong individual: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.
May 29, 2018 · HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL (1808 – 1888), was a German rabbi and the foremost ideologue of Jewish Neo-Orthodoxy in the Western world. Hirsch was born in Hamburg and educated in an "enlightened-pious" family of Orthodox Jews who rejected the notion that secular culture is incompatible with traditional Jewish faith. Thus he continued his studies ...
Samson Raphael Hirsch. In 1830 Hirsch was elected chief rabbi ("Landrabbiner") of the principality of Oldenburg, where he remained until 1841, when he was elected chief rabbi of the Hanoverian districts of Aurich and Osnabrück, with his residence in Emden.
