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It should be noted that Geiger was laying the foundation in
this sermon for the overthrow of Judaism. Meanwhile Tiktin
continued his attack on Geiger. The super-rich Bundists who
were on the Board of Directors of the Breslau Jewish
community suspended Rabbi Tiktin on phony charges, such as
that he had failed to give moral instruction to the congregation,
and neglected religious instruction to the young, and failed to
visit the sick. Tiktin refuted the charges and opened a
counterattack. He declared "a man like Geiger who did not
observe the 613 Commandments of the Torah could not be
considered a Jew let alone a member of the Rabbinate."
Geiger's defense was ridiculous. He claimed that the Talmud
had abolished some of the commandments of the Bible.
It should be realized that Geiger's background was
religious. He came from an observant Jewish home, and his
brothers, unlike him, were meticulous in their religious
observance. As a result of his fall from grace, Geiger struck
back. In 1854, when they opened the Breslau Seminary,
Geiger issued a new prayer book, which was a slap in the face
to the Reform movement. Up until that time Reform in
Germany had utilized a radically revised liturgy that had been
published in Hamburg in 1818. Now Geiger, whom the public
had acclaimed as a great reformer, had put out a prayer book
that was more traditional. 40
All this happened to Geiger because of the Fall of Reform in
Russia. Lillienthal could never come back to Germany to face
the music. His departure from Russia was sudden as historian
Lucy Davidowicz declares, "Lillienthal left Russia suddenly and
went to the U. S. where he was active as rabbi, author and
communal leader."
The philosophy of the Bund versus that of the religious
community could best be summarized by some quotations
from Lillienthal's own writing, My Educational Mission in
Russa, 42 in which conversations are described with the Vilna
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