Samson Raphael Hirsch Quotes

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One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

The prophet of the new message came into their midst with the cry of "religion allied to progress"; he filled the blank, pacified their conscience and wiped out their shame. With this magic word he turned irreligion into Godliness, apostasy into priesthood, sin into merit, frivolity into virtue, weakness into strength, thoughtlessness into profundity.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch

Samson Raphael Hirsch

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Born: June 20, 1808

Died: December 31, 1888 (aged 80)

Bio: Samson Raphael Hirsch was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism.

Known for:

The Hirsch Chumash: Bemidbar
Nineteen letters of Ben Uziel
Timeless Torah
The Collected Writings: Jewish education

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