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Concerning Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits’ approach to Halacha, I don’t see any evidence that it was influenced by Rav Soloveitchik’s writings. In fact, I believe the opposite is true.
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who lived in the 20th century, was a leader of Modern Orthodoxy, a halachic (legal) scholar and a very profound thinker who pursued secular as well as traditional ...
The Boston College event, titled “Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik on Interreligious Dialogue — 40 Years Later,” which is scheduled to take place two miles from where Soloveitchik lived, will be ...
While once reminiscing with Rav Aharon Lichtenstein zts"l, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zts"l's son-in law, about our years in Brookline, Massachusetts, he highlighted the unique Shabbat sessions ...
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, known to his myriad students as "The Rav" zts"l, suggests that this distinction is deeply significant. He argues that the Babylonian Talmud’s wording is deliberate ...
For Rabbi Soloveitchik and later, Rabbi Sacks, two intellectual titans of our tradition, it was through Judaism’s dialectic essence that man and the divine could continue to find connection.
Tens of thousands participated in the funeral procession of the Rosh Yeshiva of Brisk Rabbi Meshulam David Soloveitchik, who died at age 99 of complications related to the coronavirus in Jerusalem ...
Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, a major Jewish philosopher who shaped Orthodox Judaism in America through his writing and lectures and his ordination of more than 2,000 rabbis, died Thursday at his ...
To mark the 100th birthday and 10th yarzheit of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, various institutions are mounting a number of events in the coming year to celebrate the memory and achievements of ...
Thank you for your very balanced reaction to my essay on Rav Soloveitchik z”l. I apologize for responding only now. To begin with, it seems that you agree with most of what I wrote. However, I ...
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