Editing Samson Raphael Hirsch (section)

===''Horeb''===
''Horeb'' (subtitled ''Versuche über Jissroel's Pflichten in der Zerstreuung'', “Essays on the Duties of the Jewish People in the Diaspora”), published 1838, is Rabbi Hirsch's presentation of Jewish law and observances, with particular emphasis on their underlying ideas, capturing the "unifying ideological threads"; 
these discussions are still regularly taught and referenced.
<ref>See for example [https://outorah.org/series/4128/ "Horeb - Philosophy of law and observances from Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch"], outorah.org, and [http://www.sarahlipman.com/horeb "Rav Hirsch Horeb Shiurim"], Sarah Lipman</ref>
The title is a reference to the [[Ten Commandments|(Ten) Commandments]]; [[Mount Horeb]], {{bibleverse||Exodus|3:1|HE}}, is another name for [[Mount Sinai]].
''Horeb'' is organized into six sections, according to Hirsch's classification of the commandments. 
As for the ''Letters'', its historical background is the [[Haskalah|enlightenment]], and particularly the beginnings of [[Reform Judaism]], and it thus constituted an attempt "to lead the young generation of Jewry back to the Divine law."<ref>Dayan [[Isidor Grunfeld]]. [https://web.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/horebaphilosophy027897mbp.pdf ''Introduction to Horeb'']</ref>
See  also [[#Themes in his work|below]].
In it Hirsch shows that the Torah's ''mitzvot'', are not mere "ceremonies", but "duties" of Israel. 
It was then, to some extent, "a necessary concomitant of the Letters".
It was conceived, also, to deal with the practical observances of Judaism - providing summarised Halachot relevant to each sub-section.