The Rebbetzin's Husband

Perhaps some rabbis marry women and make them rebbetzins
but my rebbetzin married me and made me a rabbi
שלי ושלכם שלה הוא
mawkish, but true

Showing posts with label Judaism: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judaism: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The holiness of the body

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What do you think of this declaration? "Nothing is more important for man than to be continuously aware of the fact that his body, like...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

On studying History: Rav Hirsch and the Netziv

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I used the following two sources in a recent class on History and Memory. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch , early 19th century Germany, The Rele...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

For in truth, no period lives for itself alone

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I love reading, and re-reading, Rav Hirsch; he has few peers for both depth and eloquence. R' Samson Raphael Hirsch, Horeb, paragraph 23...
Friday, April 17, 2009

A Liberating Swim in the Mikvah (Derashah Shemini 5769)

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In the 1920s and 1930s, psychiatrists prescribed hydrotherapy for delirium, excitement and other nervous disorders. Thetreatments involved e...
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When Poetry is Useless

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Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch wrote beautifully, in the 43rd chapter of Horeb, about the way that a Yom Tov’s national celebration overrides t...
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