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This essay investigates some aspects of Hermann Cohen’s thought process and its relationship to chassidic thought.

Ironically, it seems that the project–founded by Zunz and Gans–of the “Wissenschaft des Judentums” (Academic Judaic Studies) sought to accomplish, undermined its own end.

While Socrates is seen as the paragon of virtue and self-sacrifice, chassidic literature explains that he in no way compared to our forefather Avraham–and for that matter even the most simple of Jews.

I find it rather curious and particularly terrible that rabbis that are self styled champions of Judaism’s ideals are praising the recent ruling of SCOTUS although the ruling is antithetical to various elements of Judaic ethics.