Dr. Yitzhok Levine has posted the Mishpacha Magazine article about Rav Hirsch’s 200th birthday. It was written by Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfuter and give a great history of Rav Hirsh’s life, struggles, and accompliments to Klal Yisrael (inlcuding a connection to both the beginning of the Agudath Israel and the Beis Yaakov movment). This was easily one of my favorite quotes for the article:
It is noteworthy that Rav Shimon Schwab related that the Imrei Emes once told him that “the Tzaddik of Frankfurt [Rav Hirsch] was a leibidege mussar sefer [a living morality text].”
The article is an easy read and is available here, thanks to Dr. Levine (who gave me permission to post the link).
The aricle by Rabbi Frankfurter is additionaly a literary masterpiece. kudos for posting it.
Agreed. The author deals with various complex issues in a very accessible and erudite manner.
True. While I was thrilled w/ the Artscroll Bio that came out several years ago, this article by R Frankfurter tells of key accomplishments in R Hirsch’s life and his impact on almost every strand of Torah observant life.
Rabbi Frankfurter wrote a piece in the Succos edition of Mishpacha on Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s understanding of happiness which is simply breathtakingly beautiful. I wonder where he was all this time, since he’s a true pro.
The article in Mishpacha is quite interesting as it raises a lot of issues. His point that the Rebbe understood happiness to be intertwined with melancholy is correct.