Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and the Development of Modern Orthodoxy (58:44)

2/3s of Berlin Jews converted to Lutheranism. In the 1800s baptism was their ticket to European culture. Dr. Henry Abramson describes European society and what led the German Jews to step away from their Jewish practices and into secular society

Dr. Henry Abramson (90)

 

The Land and Its Spirit: What G-d Envisions for Eretz Yisrael (48:58)

Why is Israel the Jewish homeland? Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein starts in the beginning and shows the history and the documentation of the Jewish connection to Israel. He brings Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's discussion on the arrival of Abraham in the land of Canaan and why he was given that area as a homeland

Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein (32)