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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Orthodoxy's Separation from Reform Judaism #shorts

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Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer

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Shimon Sofer Hirsch is part of his battle against reform and held that we can't collaborate with them on anything because they are antithetical to Judaism. They represent a foreign and heretical perspective. So therefore he felt that they had to be the orthodoxy must be separate from the general community. And he that's why his communities were called the Austrittsgemeinde. Austritt is the Grossgemeinde, the larger community. Austrittsgemeinde means the separate district or removed

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