Concept
Torah im Derech Eretz
Overview
Torah im Derech Eretz (Hebrew: תורה עם דרך ארץ – Torah with "the way of the land") is a phrase common in Rabbinic literature referring to various aspects of one's interaction with the wider world. The term also refers to a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism articulated by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), which formalizes a relationship between traditionally observant Judaism and the modern world. The resultant mode of Orthodox Judaism is sometimes termed Neo-Orthodoxy or, in some historiographies, Frankfurter Orthodoxy.
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This discreet counsel has the same origin as the request to cultivated members of society to turn back to the customs and ideas of the savages of the North American forests, or as the recommendation to adopt the religion of Melchisedec which Fichte[6] has maintained to be the purest and simplest possible, and therefore the one at which we must eventually arrive. On the one hand, in this retrogression the desire for…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Their source is to be found primarily in a transference of the relations of the earthly State to the divine State, as a result of which the ruler of the latter was exalted to the position of lawgiver in the kingdom of men no less than in that of the gods. Proofs of this transference are to be found in the most ancient customs and legal enactments of all regions. Either the ethical and religious commandments are…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Torah im Derech Eretz; the term itself is not named.
These aspects may be pronounced in general terms to constitute the character of the primitive artistic pantheism of the East, which either charges even the meanest objects with the absolute import, or again coerces nature with violence into the expression of its view. By this means it becomes bizarre, grotesque, and tasteless, or turns the infinite but abstract freedom of the substantive Idea disdainfully against…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
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Philosophers who discussed Torah im Derech Eretz
Related ideas
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- German language
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Halakha
- Yeshiva
- Samson Raphael Hirsch
- Kraków
- Modernity
- Western culture
- Orthodox Judaism
- Lutheranism
- Romanticism
- Torah
- Antwerp
- World War II
- Weimar Republic
- Western Europe
- Secularity
- World War I
- Haredi Judaism
- Rabbinic literature
- Friedrich Schiller
- New York City
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Jewish philosophy.