דער קערפער פֿון השם"[O]nce upon a time, #Haskalah was a scandalous word to some, and stood for intellectual freedom to others.
It was #MosesMendelssohn... who was... regarded as the founder of Haskalah — the attempt to combine the #Jewish religion and its scholarship with secular cultural and scientific advances.
#Mendelssohn settle[d] in #Berlin, where he came into contact with non-Jewish scholarship. [Which] led to him being accepted into the #German cultural elite.
Mendelssohn saw the danger of #Jews moving out of the ghetto to assimilate. He believed that by translating the #Torah into German, the danger could be averted. He argued that #Judaism did not conflict with modern states...
...Sadly, although he remained completely #Orthodox himself, within a generation, all his children married out and abandoned Judaism." 🤔
Daniel Baránek
