Print This PostRosenzweig disagreed with “orthodox” notions of halakha as espoused by R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch who attempts to ground halakha exclusively in God’s commanding authority at Mount Sinai while defending halakha through offering reasons for all the miztvot which show how they manifests the humanistic values of his time. For Rosenzweig, a Jew does not ask why to keep halakha. Rather it is like water for a fish.