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ke this or if anyone knows who this letter may have gone to please share i typed up the interesting parts because the scan quality is very poor click on image to read the original with what looks like the rebbe s handwritten markings and edits to r nissan mindel s text excerpts from the rebbe s letter i must touch upon another even more delicate matter concerning the teachings of rabbi samson raphael hirsch whom you mention in your letter there has been a tendency lately to apply his approach in totality here and now added for americans born and in america while it is understandable that the direct descendants of rabbi hirsch or those who were brought up in that philosophy should want to disseminate his teachings i must say emphatically that to apply his approach to the american scene will not serve the interest of orthodoxy in america with all due respect to his philosophy and approach which were very forceful and effective in his time and in his milieu r hirsch wrote for an audience and youth which was brought up on philosophical studies and which were permeated with all sorts of doctrines and schools of thought and disciplined in the art of intellectual research etc thus it was necessary to enter into long philosophical discussions to point out the fallacy of each and every thought and theory which is incompatible with torah and mitzvoth there was no harm in using this approach inasmuch as the harms had already been there and if it could strengthen jewish thought and practice it was useful and to that extent effective however here in the united states we have a different audience and a youth which radically differs from the type whom r hirsch had addressed originally american youth is not of the philosophical turn of mind they have neither the patience nor the training to delve into philosophical discussions and to evaluate different system and theories when they are added induced to go to college and introduced to all sorts of ideas including those that are diametrically opposed to the torah and mitzvoth and there are many of then since there are many falsehoods but only one truth this approach can only bring them to a greater measure of confusion whether or not the final analysis and conclusions will be accepted by them one thing is certain that the seeds of doubt will have multiplied in their minds since each theory has its prominent proponent bearing impressive titles of professors phd s etc besides the essential point and approach is thou shalt be wholehearted with g d they g d the surest way to remaining a faithful jew is not through philosophy but through the actual experience of the jewish way of life in the daily life fully and wholeheartedly as for the know what to answer the heretic this is surely only one particular aspect and certain does not apply to everyone why introduce every jewish boy and girl to the various heretics that ever lived the whole problem is a delicate one and i have written the above only in the hope that you may be able to use your influence with certain circles in washington heights that they should again re examine the whole question and see if the r hirsch approach should be applied to the american scene my decided opinion is of course that it should not and i hope that whatever measure of restraint you may accomplish through your influence will be all to the good i hope to hear good news from you also in regard to this i want to take this opportunity to mention another point which we touched upon during our conversation and which i followed up in writing i refer to the movement of torah v derech eretz alluding to the saying of our sages that derech eretz comes before torah however the term derech eretz is interpreted as a college education and it is claimed to be the doctrine rabbi samson raphael hirsch of blessed memory as you will recall i made the point in my previous letter on this subject that in my opinion with all due respect to this policy and school of thought which had their time and place they are not at all suitable for american jewish youth and for present times and conditions especially in the united states i even made so bold a move as to try to enlist your cooperation to use your influence to discourage the reintroduction of this movement on the american jewish scene since it is my belief that your work carries a great deal of weight in these circles here i want to note with gratification that on the basis of unofficial and behind the scenes information which has reached me from the circles in question the point which i made with regard to the school of thought that has been gaining evermore adherents it is becoming increasingly recognized that a college education is not a vital necessity and is not even of secondary importance many begin to recognize that the torah toras chaim is after all the best s chorah even as a career in the light of this now reappraisal attendance at college is being recognized as something negative and interfering and with detracting from the study of torah so much for the younger generation labels chabad posted 3 53 pm orthomom greenbaum and google my thoughts if you ve been under a rock since before the weekend as i have you ll just be learning about pamela greenbaum s attack on orthomom full coverage there and on canonist from what i ve read it seems that greenbaum is asking google to reveal the id of orthmom and her commentators because of alleged defamation and libelous comments against her calling her a bigot and an anti semite canonist links to the the court documents and they provide a fuller picture the document is not a complaint as in party a suing party b and bringing a complaint against them rather it is an order to show cause which has different legal ramifications what greenbaum is doing is asking a judge to subpoena google for orthomom s identity based on even a small chance of having a case against orthmom on her blog orthomom beats down the claims set forth one by one here but this document is not where greenbaum needs to state her case or prove her allegations all she needs to do is convince a judge that she has some chance at bringing a reasonable charge and that without injunctive relief in this case having the court force google to turn over identifying information she has no other way of pursuing her case at this stage the judge isn t being asked to decide whether there was defamation or libel the judge only decides whether the claims made are considerable enough to require the other party to show up in court and present their side so while it s easy to say that the libel charge has no standing greenbaum is probably hoping that the judge will decide that orthomom needs to show up in court and present her side i highly doubt that will happen though because again the libel charge is baseless so the judge will probably toss it out without involving orthomom at all what i really want to know in all this is what exactly pamela greenbaum is thinking surely her lawyers have advised her that as a public figure she has to be nuts to sue anyone for defamation that s why i personally doubt that greenbaum has any plans at all to sue orthomom and seek damages she s hinging everything on having orthomom s identity revealed before the lawsuit because she must know that her case is a loser but having orthomom s identity made public will unfortunately be victory enough the third party google makes this saga even more interesting even though this lawsuit doesn t target google they have as much interesting in protecting orthomom s privacy as she herself does it occurred to me that when signing up for blogger there is no privacy clause or user agreement that ensures any degree of privacy in other words google has no legal requirement to protect identifying information of its users and makes no promise to do as much but in terms of business sense they d lose a lot of popularity if they don t fight this subpoena i wish orthomom the best in all of this and hope she comes out unscathed frankly i m amazed that she s been able to hold on to her anonymity thus far i think that being totally anonymous on the internet is no longer possible at least in my experience our identities are much more transparent than we think if greenbaum is really so malicious and wanted to slander orthomom in return she could have saved face and gone about it a little more quietly for example by sending her an email and then getting an ip address on the returned mail from there she could have probably gotten a name quicker and without making herself out to be a total fool but then who am i to advise a paranoid official who can t handle the slightest criticism without getting litigious labels blogging posted 12 13 pm thursday february 15 2007 move over shiny shoe music it s time for shuckle the forward ran an article in december that described the new wave in jewish music the hip hop reggae rap inspired jewish music that its creators are calling shuckle i m surprised that this article went more or less unnoticed by other music blogs because it really does a great service to the jewish music discussion there s a lot of importance in defining a genre with an exact term the term jewish music is too general to be useful a few years ago mochossid brilliantly coined a new name for the mbd avraham fried shwekey brand of jewish music he wrote i was mifarseim the term shiny shoe music which is now almost universally accepted even in the shiny shoe music world chaim dovid coined the term we were talking and he referred to the musicians with the shiny black shoes i took it from there if i do nothing else in my blogging career dayeinu indeed the term shiny shoe music is the perfect way to talk about that specific genre blogindm and o t h e r s were quick to use and publicize shiny shoe terminology i think that shuckle can be the next shiny shoe so what is shuckle the article interviews daniel seliger and alon cohen of 12 tribe sound a production company they founded in order to cultivate and promote orthodox hip hop acts they explain you have grunge you have punk rock you have shuckle you shuckle when you daven and you shuckle when you listen to reggae it s shuckle music who is shuckle the article lists 12 tribe sound s biggest names starting with reggae s reigning semitic royal matisyahu and goes on to include a hasidic heavy roster y love a black convert who raps about god ta shma a hip hop twosome whose name means come listen in aramaic merkavah a phish for the phylactery crowd and the admor an honest to goodness jamaican born breslov hasid dancehall emcee and martial arts master you may be wondering why not refer to it as jewish hip hop or jewish reggae seliger explains we re not trying to take any of the cultural elements of hip hop the violence we re more interested in the raw elemental music sound the medium of poetry over beats lends itself to communicating ideas more so than that with a singer songwriter music should be about the boom of that bass drum the kick of that snare there shouldn t be any negativity associated with it i would also add that describing for example matisyahu as jewish reggae is inaccurate he s no longer pure reggae and putting jewish in front of the label doesn t do justice to his mainstream audience similarly just as shiny shoe music isn t adequately described with contemporary ultra orthodox music shuckle music isn t adequately defined as a jewish version of some other musical genre we re talking about a revolution a totally new wave in jewish music the author leah hochbaum made a few curious mistakes in the article first she titles the piece shuckle rock puts the pray there is nothing rock about shuckle so i don t know where that came from and it s a little misleading second hochbaum incorrectly labels alon cohen not observant based on his comment i have my own relationship with god halivay more frum people could say the same besides for the obvious poor taste in judging people s religiosity based on an impression it undermines the whole mission of shuckle to claim its founders are not religious shuckle music is the unique combination of hip hop and other urban admittedly goyish sounds with a heimish lifestyle and torah based ideas it s a concept rooted deep in chassidic philosophy of elevating the mundane and using everything the world has to offer for our purpose my interpretation might be a bit over the top but nonetheless there needs to be a truly jewish motivation for creating this kind of music or it will be no different than the original obviously there are many producers and musicians who are not religious and it s mostly irrelevant to the music but the pioneers and people behind the innovation have to be for any of it to work of course shuckle doesn t come without controversy which leads me to the next reason why using the term shuckle vs terms like jewish hip hop is so important most jewish music is rooted in non jewish music the reason parents and teachers don t ban early mbd records while they resist the likes of matisyahu is that other types of music are better at hiding their questionable roots and insist on being referred to straight up as jewish music many don t want kids listening to hip hop or reggae even after it s been modified to be jewish but if it were shuckle a distinctly yiddishe genre of music that only incidentally shares musical elements with morally questionable sources a genre that was created by frum jews for frum jews maybe then it won t be seen as such a threat shuckle is here to stay it s the sound of the future so let s start talking about it in the right terms spread the word the word is shuckle labels music shuckle posted 2 26 pm tuesday february 13 2007 pregnancy scare yesterday i walked in to my office to see that someone had brought a baby in to work with them not just anyone but one of the high school interns as the youngest paid member of the workforce and one of the very few parents i should not be one to judge but i couldn t help and take a second look sure enough there was no baby it was actually an incredibly life like doll my curiosity was piqued why was a high school senior carrying around a doll in a real infant seat i couldn t think of any explanation that didn t involve a prank so i gave it up and went about my own business less than an hour later the doll began to cry really cry a recording of an actual baby s cry projected from a speaker in the doll s insides next thing i know the high school girl was scrambling to soothe the doll she first changed the diaper but when that didn t help she rocked the doll back and forth finally getting the thing to stop whimpering only when she sat down and fed it a bottle this feeding lasted a good 15 minutes after which i heard a very audible burp finally the doll was wrapped up and put for an afternoon nap in the infant seat i kid you not it turns out this high school girl was fulfilling her senior health class requirement of caring for a baby for 4...