{"id":119,"date":"2009-06-10T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/06\/did-you-see-my-alps.html"},"modified":"2009-06-10T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:12:07","slug":"did-you-see-my-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/06\/did-you-see-my-alps.html","title":{"rendered":"Did You See My Alps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story in the brand new, sharply designed and overall very\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/life-and-religion\/peaks-of-perfection\/\">intriguing new Jewish web magazine, Tablet<\/a>, describes the Jewish infatuation with the Alps. The best line, cited at the end, is the famous one from Rav Hirsch:\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>Samson Raphael Hirsch, the father of modern Orthodoxy, may have best captured this sentiment: &#8220;When I shall stand before G-d,&#8221; he wrote in the 1880s, &#8220;the Eternal One will ask me: Did you see my Alps?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story in the brand new, sharply designed and overall very\u00a0intriguing new Jewish web magazine, Tablet, describes the Jewish infatuation with the Alps. 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