Who ever heard of the founder of Reform being quoted in an Orthodox synagogue, from the pulpit, in a lesson on parashat hashavuah? And, apparently, in the weekly chumash class as well?
Mendelssohn, for those whose knowledge of evil is incomplete, was the 18th century German Jew who basically catalyzed the formation of the Reform movement, the source of destruction of a large part of European Jewry. To quote him in a shiur is not only wrong, it's laughable. Who's up next for reference? Jesus? Martin Luther? It's bad enough that we use the Hertz chumash, with its Conservative dominated translation taken from the Jewish Publication Society of America, and its commentary, which straddles the line between Orthodoxy and Conservative. But to quote a guy who set in motion the greatest defection from Torah our people has ever known, a man who was so "great" at perpetuating the Jewish people that none of his descendants is today Jewish, just defies logic.
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