Reflecting on the ethos of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the leader of 19th-century German Orthodoxy, Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg explained: “The Jewish faith did not view life with a furrowed brow, nor did it consider it an enemy.” Judaism, he continued, cannot “be confined to the realm of worship alone”; it “necessarily aspired to encompass all areas of life and exercise full control over them.” As Rabbi Hirsch himself put it, Judaism “means a perfected and complete humanity; Jewish humanity.” The Jewish mission is not to withdraw from the world but to act within it, bringing the light of the faith of Abraham and the Divine law to every corner of life.
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