tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post8534786434683146017..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: The intrigue of missing haskamos and veiled allusions to Mendelssohn in the collected sermons of a disciple of the Gaon.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-37192146370741431362010-03-18T14:43:30.272-04:002010-03-18T14:43:30.272-04:00"you can't write someone out of Orthodoxy..."you can't write someone out of Orthodoxy on Tuesday and expect everyone to agree on Wednesday."<br /><br />אכשורי דרא unfortunatelyWolf2191https://www.blogger.com/profile/13577870680689849400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-61113043390622619422010-03-18T12:25:26.591-04:002010-03-18T12:25:26.591-04:00>I think the point is that you can't write ...>I think the point is that you can't write someone out of Orthodoxy on Tuesday and expect everyone to agree on Wednesday.<br /><br />To continue this point, it's also a fact that he's trying to sell as many copies as possible. In 1863 it was already quite clear that many did not consider the Bresslau Seminary kosher. But the point is that the buying public at the time overlapped in a way that it does not today. You see this in the subscription lists, where you'll find that the author went to Rav Hirsch and then he went to Geiger. Today there would be few seforim if any which would benefit from the haskama of Rabbi Arnold Eisen of the JTS (while admitting that this parallel fails in that CJ has a hundred plus year history while in 1863 the worst that people could say about Frankel is that he was ambiguous). <br /><br />However, it is notable that despite the fact that people like R. Hirsch surely could not have <b>liked</b> seeing books with haskamos from R. Frankel and the like, this would not have alienated the right wing buying public to the point that they would not buy it <b>because</b> of it.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-5525549641567202022010-03-18T12:16:36.776-04:002010-03-18T12:16:36.776-04:00I think the point is that you can't write some...I think the point is that you can't write someone out of Orthodoxy on Tuesday and expect everyone to agree on Wednesday.<br /><br />By the way, if you look at the complete list of haskamos (you can read a list handily <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9T0pAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow">here</a>, instead of plowing through the small type) I think it becomes more clear why they didn't reprint the haskamos. Frankel was obvious; Shir probably also would have been left out. But what should they do with Lazar Horwitz? Or other names which they simply could not recognize? So possibly they decided to just not reprint them, although one also wonders what harm there would have been in selecting the obviously "good" ones?<br /><br />As an aside, how awesome is the name "Rabbi Yechiel Michl <b>Christianopoler</b> ab"d of Brody"?S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-2132711958676542192010-03-18T08:27:30.029-04:002010-03-18T08:27:30.029-04:00Great catch!
Note that 1863 is after Hirsch's...Great catch!<br /><br />Note that 1863 is after Hirsch's attack on Darkei HaMishna but the publisher did not see any problem including his haskamah. <br /><br />I would love to see more documents of Frankel in his role as a traditional Rabbi.<br /><br />Like - http://books.google.com/books?id=xQzuGncH1TgC&lpg=PP1&dq=inauthor%3Abenjamin%20America&pg=PA333#v=onepage&q=Frankel&f=falseWolf2191https://www.blogger.com/profile/13577870680689849400noreply@blogger.com