Wednesday, July 29, 2009

R' Shimshon Raphael Hirsch on Jewish Days of Mourning, Part 4

Hello,

[continued from yesterday's post]

"For in truth, no period lives for itself alone. Generations rise and fall so that those who follow may well learn from the glow of their sunrise as well as from that of their sunset; that they may reap the fruits of the rise and the fall of those who went before, avoid their errors and go forward and upward, basing their edifice upon the vritues of their progenitors."

(R' Samson Raphael Hirsch, Horeb, paragraph 234)

Be well,
Mordechai

3 comments:

  1. A Yashar Koach for (collectively) these posts.

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  2. Last Shabbat while reading the Haftorah I was thinking that we, as a people, haven't changed at all.

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  3. Neil-
    Thanks!

    Filala-
    The gemara teaches that the prophecies recorded in Tanach are not a matter of history; rather, they are recorded because they remain relevant...

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