Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism |
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| Author:
| Weiss, Saul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-4469-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $56.00 |
Book Description:
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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik--the Rav--was one of the twentieth century's most significant Jewish thinkers. He was widely regarded as the intellectual leader of an open, engaged, and meaningful Orthodoxy for the twentieth century. Rabbi Soloveitchik wrote many essays and delivering thousands of lectures. Culled from personal notes from some of those lectures, as well as translations, transcriptions, and the Rav's own writings, Rabbi Saul Weiss's Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik...
More DescriptionRabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik--the Rav--was one of the twentieth century's most significant Jewish thinkers. He was widely regarded as the intellectual leader of an open, engaged, and meaningful Orthodoxy for the twentieth century. Rabbi Soloveitchik wrote many essays and delivering thousands of lectures. Culled from personal notes from some of those lectures, as well as translations, transcriptions, and the Rav's own writings, Rabbi Saul Weiss's Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik offers a masterful, comprehensive guide to the Rav, arranged topically, illuminating the Rav's thinking on the fundamental theological, ethical, communal, social, personal and halachic issues to Judaism.