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What those Jews who adopted the isolationist stance to
secular culture were doing was actually capitulating to what
Mendelssohn, the llluminati, the Bund and Marxists wanted
them to do all along. They were, through withdrawal, bowing
out of sight and contact with the real world, and thus the
"elimination of the opiate" and the overthrow of religion could
be accomplished that much more quickly.
Perhaps the greatest single voice against this conspiracy
was that of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, contemporary of
Abraham Geiger, who fought successfully these machinations
by adopting the philosophy of Torah Im Derech Eretz—Torah
and Culture. Thus the followers of S. R. Hirsch brought up
their children to excel in fields of secular endeavor and in
religious observance. However, Hirsch's approach lacked
mystical elements. This attitude was also adopted by many
communities in Eastern Europe who trained their children in
the Haskala and educated them in literature, and pointed out
the pitfall of surrendering eternal and authentic religious values
to the Haskala. The varied attitudes on this subject and a
philosophy of approach were causes of bitter contention
between some Chasidic dynasties. The Munkatch dynasty of
Hungary, for example, condemned any pursuit of secular
education and urged an iconoclastic existence upon its
members. The Lubavitch sect urged complete intellectual
immersion in Western culture with no compromise whatsoever
upon Torah values, but it encouraged some of its students if
they so desired not to pursue a university education. The
Lubavitcher Rebbe of today, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, has a Ph.D. degree, and engages in dialogue
with university professors and college students, holding official
intellectual colloquia with them in his Brooklyn headquarters.
Another Chasidic group, which chagrined the as-
similationists, was the Rizhiner dynasty. The Rizhiner group
was founded by Rabbi Israel Friedman of Rizhin. His son
Abraham founded another dynasty in Galicia ... the dynasty of
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