"S. R. Hirsch insisted upon stressing his conviction that there was nothing new in his conception of Judaism. "I have not set out to create a new Judaism," he wrote to one of his disciples, a short time after the publication of his first books, "instead I want to grasp and describe- as far as is possible-the ideas of Judaism as it is." He was aware that the essence of his thoughts was contained in the ancient approach of the Torah, the Prophets and the Sages, and that it was his task merely to crystallize the ideas that had remained in the treasury of the ancient sources ever since."
Mordechai Breuer
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