Superiority of his Style

Rav Banet’s works differ in other respects from those of his contemporaries. His style is clear and elegant, and his language is a pure Hebrew. Moreover, Rav Banet’s attitude toward the strict Orthodoxy of his friends and colleagues was exceptional, and may be attributed to his knowledge of modern thought (compare his letter to Rav Tzvi Hirsch Levin in Literaturblatt des Orients, v. 54). These characteristics gave him an independent position in the struggle between Orthodoxy and the so-called “spirit of enlightenment”.