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Simcha Krauss |
Rabbi Krauss is Rabbi Emeritus of the Young Israel of Hillcrest, in New York, and the immediate past president of the Religious Zionists of America. Rabbi Krauss and his wife recently made aliya and live in Jerusalem, where he serves on the Talmud faculty of Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi.
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These are some of the traits of Halakhic Man. Much more than I have written here is imprinted in his consciousness. This essay is but a patch-work of scattered reflections, a haphazard collection of fragmentary observations, an incomplete sketch of but a few of Halakhic Man's features. It is devoid of scientific precision, of substantive and stylistic clarity. Indeed, it is an indifferent piece of work. But it is revealed and known before Him who created the world, that my sole intention was to defend the honor of the halakha and halakhic men, for both it and they have oftentimes been attacked by those who have not penetrated in to the essence of halakha and have failed to understand the halakhic personality. And if I have erred, may God, in His goodness, forgive me.'
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