e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: Rabbi Seligmann Baer Bamberger, the Wuerzburger Rav
The next series returns to our classes on great rabbinic figures. We shall be looking at the life and influence of R. Seligmann Baer Bamberger (1807-1878). The leading German halakhist of his day, he is best remembered for his bitter controversy with R. Samson Raphael Hirsch about how Orthodox Jews should relate to the non-Orthodox. While R. Hirsch demanded Orthodox communal separatism, R. Bamberger upheld communal unity.
