Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft

Here's a listing in Adressbuch von Frankfurt for the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft (IRG) in Frankfurt. Above it is the address for the Israelitische Gemeinde, i.e. the Israelite Community. Israelitische means Israelite. Gemeinde means Community. So I assume this is the general non-secessionist community. It was on Allerheiligenstraße 75. (Thank you to Uwe, the kindly archivist at the museum for finding this.)

You'll see below that a listing for the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft without an address. Religionsgesellschaft means religious society. I believe that it is pronounced: Israel Etisheh  ReligiOngezelshaft

But I found on the German Wiki that the street of the original IRG is Schützenstraße, which is one block from Rav Hirsch's home on Schöne Aussicht. Schützenstraße means protection street or something like that. This address also appears in the Klugman biography.

German Wiki

Der erste Synagogenbau der deutschsprachigen Austrittsorthodoxie entstand um 1853 in der Frankfurter Schützenstraße. Der Nachfolgebau Friedberger Anlage 5–6 (1905–1907 erbaut) war einer der geräumigsten jüdischen Sakralbauten Europas. Erst 1928 wurde die Frankfurter Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft eine eigenständige Körperschaft.

The first synagogue built by the German-speaking Orthodox secessionists was erected around 1853 on Schützenstraße in Frankfurt. Its successor, located at Friedberger Anlage 5–6 (built between 1905 and 1907), was one of the most spacious Jewish places of worship in Europe. The Frankfurt Israelite Religious Society did not become an independent corporation until 1928.

Consultation with Rav Hirsch?

A kindly archivist at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt located Rav Hirsch's address for me:

 Schöne Aussicht 5, Frankfurt   [pr. Shahne Awesecht]. This address also appears in the Klugman biography.

(means beautiful view)

Sprechst.  c.3--4 Uhr Nm. means Consultation hours approx. 3-4 pm.

Imagine meeting with Rav Hirsch during his consultation hours!

I don't know what the p or subscript 2 signifies. Maybe it's an apartment number.

His building was torn down. Today there's this:

https://www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/wertvoll/adressbuch.html.

It's on this corner:

More of the family:

Rav Schwab on the Parsha

Rav Schwab on the Parsha 

R' Yaakov de Wolff (London) 

"Avrohom rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey; he took his two servants with him, and Yitzchok his son. He split the wood for the offering, and rose to go to the place that Hashem had told him [to go to]” (Bereishis 22:3). The Ramo says (in Shulchan Oruch Ourach Chayim 583:2) that on Roush Hashono it is customary to go to a river to say Tashlich. One of the reasons provided (in his Darchei Moushe there in the name of the Maharil) is based on a Midrash (see Tanchuma Vayeiro 22:12) in which we learn that during the journey with Yitzchok, Avrohom was waylaid by Soton who created a wide river. Avrohom, determined to follow Hashem’s instructions, waded through the river. At one point the water reached his neck, and he cried out to Hashem: 

 Tehillim 69:2 "Rescue me Hashem because the water has reached my neck.”

"הֹושִׁיעֵנִׁי אֱֹלקִׁים כִׁי בָאּו מַיִׁם עַד־נָפֶש" 

It is not clear how precisely how this Midrash connects with the throwing of our transgressions in the water during Tashlich. HoRav Schwab זצ״ל explains that Chazal use water as a symbol for kindness and fire for strict justice (see Gemoro Pesochim 118a, where Gavriel is described as being appointed over fire and Michoel over water). When Soton created a mighty body of water, he was trying to evoke in Avrohom an overwhelming feeling of love and kindness to the point that he would refuse to bring him as a korban. Avrohom realised that without Hashem’s support, these feelings would gain full control over him. When we perform the ritual of Tashlich, when we symbolically throw our transgressions into the water, we ask that they are swallowed up entirely by Hashem’s love for us, until the point that “the transgressions of Beis Yisroel will be thrown to a place where they will not be remembered, will not be counted, and will not be considered for eternity”

Is Yeshiva U TIDE?

Not really. YU is Litvish Judaism with lots of Zionism and enough feminism to emasculate the men but not enough to challenge the rabbis. See Zev Ellef's articles: Between Bennett and Amsterdam Avenues: The Complex American Legacy of Samson Raphael Hirsch, 1939-2013 and AMERICAN ORTHODOXY’S LUKEWARMEMBRACE OF THE HIRSCHIAN LEGACY,1850-1939.

Being more open to things, YU will have some talk about Rav Hirsch and some Chassidus, but even those are approached Litvish style, which means analytically and coldly. They are more open to careers in part because Modern Orthodoxy is very expensive with the million dollar houses and day school tuition at $40,000 a year per child. Nobody is encouraging fulfilling careers for men, just ones that make lots of money. Women on the other hand go into whatever careers they want. I know a Modern Orthodox woman who left Israel with her husband who quit his job to go study in a theater program in Colorado.

I once told a MO rabbi that it was nice that we are doing so much to improve the lives of women but I believe we need to do the same for men. He said, "I don't know what you are talking about," turned his head and walked away.

The lives of men aren't nurtured in that world any more than they are in the yeshiva world. There's the same pressure to become a genius and to 'learn more Torah,' as well as the pressure to move to Israel, which also can destroy your life. They have little sense of caretaking of the soul in either the MO or yeshiva worlds for they are after all Litvacks.

Hirsch was neither a Zionist nor a feminist nor a Litvack so YU can be a problem but so can be every other group. 

To be a Hirschian you will walk alone because what's left of the German community is either Modern or Litvish. The few people who describe themselves as Hirschians are usually Zionistic, sometimes intensely so. They rationalize that if Hirsch were around today, he'd be a Zionist. That's what you call delusional rationalization as most Zionists have replaced God and Torah with State and that's exactly what R' Hirsch said not to do. He also said to be cognizant of the dignity and purpose of gentiles. Show me a Zionist who does that. 

So, no, YU is not TIDE. You have to be TIDE on your own. Go for it. R' Hirsch will be by your side, and all the gadolim who praised Hirsch are by your side too because they understood that he was sent by Hashem to help people in their Judaism. 

But you won't be entirely on your own. You can have a foot in many communities. In the Israeli Haredi world you get the anti-zionism of Hirsch. It's a militant anti-zionism because Israel is a militant country but you ignore that part. You also get the religious intensity that was true of Rav Hirsch, although he didn't impose that on others. In the Chassidic world you get the sense of community, more of a focus on God, and a pursuit of happiness. In the Modern O world you get more of a tolerance for earning a parnassah. In the small Yekke world, mostly Wash Heights, you get the German Minhagim. And they all respect Hirsch so you keep that in your back pocket. 

East End

Ostend (German pronunciation: [ˈɔstʔɛnt]) is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt IV. The name means "East End". wikipedia

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Frankfurt’s Ostend ("East End") developed to the east of the city ramparts on ground used as gardens and fields. As of the mid–19th century, a residential area emerged here for members of the middle class working in trading, small businesses, and handcrafts.

When the Frankfurt ghetto was liberated around 1800, a large part of the Jewish population chose to move to the East End. Many families settled close to existing religious and social institutions, kosher shops, and Jewish neighbors. From 1850 on, the Jewish Community and the newly-founded IRG began to have new buildings constructed. Around 1895, almost a quarter of the population of the East End was Jewish.

https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/visit/detail/jewish-eastend-frankfurt

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The Frankfurt Zoological Garden, the East Harbor, the former Großmarkthalle and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management are some of the well-known institutions in the Ostend. The European Central Bank has also built their new seat close to the Großmarkthalle at the Main river. The Hoch Conservatory are also located in the Ostend. (wikipedia)

The area seems to go as far north as the Jewish cemetery where R Hirsch's kever is located and as far south as the Main river. Seems to me that the area is roughly 1 km by 1 km. From the Friedberger Anlange where the new IRG shul was located to the Zoo where the Realschule was  located is about 200 meters. From the Zoo to the Main is 400 meters. The whole city is 95 square miles. Boston and San Francisco are 50 square miles. NYC is 300 square miles. Chicago is 220 square miles. 

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 Israelite Religious Society (IRG)

by the end of the 19th century there were two separate Jewish communities in Frankfurt, the main community (also known as the Israelite community) and the small separatist group, known as the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft (Israelite Religious Association, or IRG). The IRG was strictly orthodox and had its own synagogue from 1907 at the Friedberger Anlage

https://metahubfrankfurt.de/en/jmf/stories/community-schism-in-the-19th-century

Friedberger Anlage

Friedberg facility

You can get a tour of the East End

 https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/visit/detail/jewish-eastend-frankfurt

Realschule

Realschule, reˈaːlʃuːlə German secondary school with an emphasis on the practical that evolved in the mid-18th century as a six-year alternative to the nine-year gymnasium. It was distinguished by its practical curriculum (natural science and chemistry) and use of chemistry laboratories and workshops for wood and glass. The realschule became the model for educational reformers in other countries.

it is pronounced Ree Al Shuleh

 At Tiergarten 8

(today: Bernhard Grzimek Avenue)

Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 8

across from the zoo

The second secondary school building with a lyceum of the Israelite Religious Society, which was inaugurated in 1881

School type	Secondary school for boys, Lyceum for girls
Founding	1853
Closing	1939; reopened 1946 to 1948

Student	around 400 (1928)
Teachers	22 (1928)

1853–1871

The secondary school with lyceum of the Israelite Religious Society was opened in 1853 on the southwestern edge of the Pfingstweide, a former parade ground, on Schützenstrasse Ostend through Rabbis Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888), who also served as the first headmaster.^[2] The western part of the Ostend was largely influenced by its Jewish population until the Second World War.

1864: The secondary school with lyceum of the Israelite Religious Society (the second building shown completely from the upper left corner) Hanauer_Bahnhof

Location of Rav Hirsch's grave

Jewish Cemetery of Frankfurt, in the Austritt Gemeinde section, Section E. 

Rat-Beil-Straße 10, Frankfurt, near the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Nearest train stop: Frankfurt (Main) Münzenberger Straße, 18, light rail

Nearest bus stop: Bus stop Frankfurt (Main) Richard-Wagner-Straße, M32

This is not the Old Jewish Cemetery that's near the Jewish museum near the Main river. "The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is located in the city center, next to the old Jewish cemetery, which is the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt and dates back to the 13th century." It's not that one. 

This is the general look of the place. 

Jewish Community Frankfurt - Cemetery Administration

Phone: +49-69 / 76 80 36-790

E-mail: friedhof@jg-ffm.de

The cemetery is locked at night. Gate is opened for free access at 10 AM. 

Portal:

Second entrance. You enter here.

Third gate is locked:

Wall is around eight feet high. 

Enter the middle gate -- Eingange -- make a right and walk along brick wall for around 80 meters. Walk until you reach another brick wall. Step through the opening in the wall. 

On the right you will see another metal gate, what I am calling the third gate. Turn left and go around 50 meters. Grave will be to your right. 

Good news for Kohanim. You can see the tombstone by peering through the opening in the third gate. Peering through the gap in the gate. Arrow points to the grave. 

There are overhanging trees along part of the wall, but not at the third gate. You might need someone to point it out to you though, someone who is inside the cemetery. 

https://alemannia-judaica.de/frankfurt_friedhof_rat-beil-strasse.htm

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_j%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_Rat-Beil-Stra%C3%9Fe

Can I do TIDE in Israel?

Sort of, not really. You are thinking a Jewish state will allow me to put my Judaism into full practice in the full dimension of life. Problem is Israel is more a military base than a real country. If it were an independent country it wouldn't have needed $1.6 trillion from the Americans to survive.

The military is mostly what the country is about, that and being anti-religious or superficially religious. There's little derech eretz in terms of good manners. People are far from being German in the good sense of the term, meaning self-disciplined, orderly, and polite. I dealt with a German on the phone the other day, I couldn't get over how organized and polite this man was. It was so refreshing. And he was personable too. It was really something. Israelis are not like that, not usually.

They have their good points, but derech eretz is not one of them. It's Israel. And you might like it there. But it's not a great place for TIDE. There's are obstacles to everything. They are so overboard on their requirements for certifications, degrees. It's obnoxious, not practical. There are few libraries, very little culture. Any classical music is supplied by Russian immigrants. It's a difficult place, not an orderly, reasonable place. The economy is lame. Mostly it's about the military. Nearly every time you hear of a big business deal in Israel it's selling of weapons systems or spy software. Most other industries are not robust. The best place for TIDE is the American Midwest, Switzerland, and England, due to the Germanic influence. Also the Breuer's community in NY since they follow German Jewish custom and the atmosphere still enjoys the influence of Rav Hirsch and Rav Breuer.

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