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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.
Dec 31, 2013 · On December 31, 1888, Samson Raphael Hirsch, the German rabbi who could reasonably be called the father of modern Orthodoxy, died, at the age of 80.
- David B. Green
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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
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
In 1851, disturbed by assimilationist tendencies of the Jewish community, Hirsch was invited to be the rabbi of Frankfurt-on-Main. He erected Jewish schools and mikvaot (ritual baths) and institutions for ritual slaughter. As a pulpit rabbi, Hirsch adopted the style of the Reformers.
Jun 16, 2024 · Samson Raphael Hirsch (born June 20, 1808, Hamburg [Germany]—died Dec. 31, 1888, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.) 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.
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German rabbi; born at Hamburg June 20, 1808; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 31, 1888. 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 ...
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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. He was born in 1808 in Hungary and became rabbi in Moravia before coming to Frankfort, Germany.
