Original sentence: Connected with this was the birth of the Reform movement, whose founding rabbis who rejected the continuing observance of those aspects of Jewish law which they classified as ritual, as opposed to moral.Enlightened Jews sided with gentile governments in plans to increase secular education amongst the Jewish masses, bringing them into acute conflict with the orthodox who believed this threatened Jewish life.Even within orthodoxy the Haskalah was felt through the appearance of the Mussar Movement in Lithuania and Torah im Derech Eretz in Germany.One facet of haskalah was a widespread cultural adaptation, as those Jews who participated in the enlightenment began in varying degrees to participate in the cultural practices of the surrounding gentile population
Edited sentence: Haskalah produced such groups as the Reform movement, which deviated from traditional Judaism with denial of Divine source of Torah and relaxation of Jewish law.Haskalah resulted in an increased rate of assimilation, as Jews known as maskilim became estranged from their traditional religious beliefs.The Orthodox community, meanwhile, responded with the further spread of Chasidic movement in all regions of Eastern Europe, the appearance of Mussar Movement in Lithuania and Torah im Derech Eretz in Germany.Various debates occurred between 'maskilim' and leaders of traditional Jewry.While maskilim aimed to increase secular education amongst Jewish masses often enforcing it (with the government), rabbis and Jewish Torah scholars were opposed to such push, as its main aim was assimilation and undermining of Jewish traditional life