Reply To: Jews Were Protected From Assimilation By Being Despised and Uncivilized

Rav Hirsch’s take on separation is much more sensible. He held that Jews did not suffer from being ghettoized because during that time there was little that the non-Jewish European world had to offer in terms of culture or intellectual advances. The Torah provides us the roadmap for negotiating the world, allowing us to make distinctions between the inspirational and the degrading.