In their struggle against acculturation, the Hungarian Haredim struggled to provide strong halakhic arguments. Michael Silber wrote: "These issues, even most of the religious reforms, fell into gray areas not easily treated within Halakha. It was often too flexible or ambiguous, at times silent, or worse yet, embarrassingly lenient." Schlesinger was forced to venture outside of normative law, into mystical writings and other fringe sources, to buttress his ideology. Most Hungarian Orthodox rabbis, while sympathetic to the "zealots"' cause, dismissed their legal arguments. In 1865, the Haredim convened in Nagymihály and issued a ban on various synagogue reforms, intended not against the Neologs but against developments in the Orthodox camp, especially after Samuel Sofer violated his father's expressed ban and instituted vernacular sermons in Pressburg. Schick, the country's most prominent decisor, and other leading rabbis refused to sign, though they did not publicly oppose the decree. On the other end of the spectrum, Hildesheimer's planned seminary was too radical for the same mainstream rabbis, and he became marginalized and isolated by 1864.
in their struggle against acculturation the hungarian haredim struggled to provide strong halakhic arguments michael silber wrote "these issues even most of the religious reforms fell into gray areas not easily treated within halakha it was often too flexible or ambiguous at times silent or worse yet embarrassingly lenient" schlesinger was forced to venture outside of normative law into mystical writings and other fringe sources to buttress his ideology most hungarian orthodox rabbis while sympathetic to the "zealots"' cause dismissed their legal arguments in 1865 the haredim convened in nagymihály and issued a ban on various synagogue reforms intended not against the neologs but against developments in the orthodox camp especially after samuel sofer violated his father's expressed ban and instituted vernacular sermons in pressburg schick the country's most prominent decisor and other leading rabbis refused to sign though they did not publicly oppose the decree on the other end of the spectrum hildesheimer's planned seminary was too radical for the same mainstream rabbis and he became marginalized and isolated by 1864