On the Transfer of the Rabbinical Seminary from Berlin to Eretz Yisrael

[ . . . ] I wrote yesterday to my friend, the illustrious rabbi, our teacher, Rabbi S. Ahronson, and to Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer himself, may his light shine, in a sharp tone, making it clear that I would not maintain silence or cease agitating about this issue. [ . . . ]

His illustrious and righteous father of blessed memory [Esriel Hildesheimer] founded the seminary to combat the reformers. [ . . . ] His son, may he enjoy long life, is now proposing to come to the Holy Land, a place where there are Torah academies and rabbis outstanding in Torah learning and in fear of God, to introduce German culture there, which has destroyed the world—and we have already witnessed what has befallen us there [in Germany]. So it is the duty of the rabbis and Talmudic scholars in the Holy Land to cry out bitterly in protest against this, in order not to allow “plagueinfested stones” to remain there. [ . . . ]

I am very perturbed over this and since I and Rabbi Hildesheimer are dear friends, I wrote to him yesterday administering an open rebuke out of love!