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Rav Solovetchik was an interesting personality, and it is very hard to get a clear understanding of him. On one hand he was an extremist Brisker, he hailed from the Brisker family whose ideology were considered the most extreme right of the Chareidi spectrum. But on the other hand he embraced the secular world and believed in integration with them. These two views are very self contradictory.

Rav Hirsch and other German Rabbanim who believed in partial integration with the secular world, were not extremist in nature nor in their views of Judaism; so it’s easy to understand how their outlook of Judaism blended together with their leniency of being somewhat integrated with the secular world.