On the Rav's Teachings
Resources detailing, summarizing, or analyzing teachings of the RavBooks
(partial list)
(Hebrew) Beit Yosef Shaul, edited by Rabbi Elchanan A. Adler, Yeshiva University, New York, 5754. Insights and Explanations in Teachings of Maran HaGaon Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik zt"l on Matters of Sifrei Torah, Tefillin and Mezuzos.
Book Reviews
Reviews of books about the Rav or his teachings
Torah as Biography: Three Seforim of or about HaRav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik zt"l (Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer)
Book Review of Commitment (Rabbi Moshe Meiselman)
The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Shalom Carmy, First Things, Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Notes
613.org
Bikkurim (Hebrew)
Shulman
Audio
10th Yarzheit (Yeshiva University)
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff (Gruss Institute, YeshivaUniversity, 142 classes)
Rabbi Hershel Schachter (REITS, Yeshiva University, 4 classes)
Rabbi Alan Brill (Yeshiva University, class on Modern Orthodoxy)
Rabbi Beinish Ginsburg
YUTorah.org, 48 classes including the following:
Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff
(Gruss Institute, Yeshiva University, 149 classes, YUTorah.org) Includes the following:
Rabbi Hershel Schachter
(9 classes, YUTorah.org)
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Rabbi Jeffrey Saks: Lonely Man of FaithYUTorah.org and WebYeshiva.orgPart 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 For Video and course materials go to webyeshiva.org. |
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| Rabbi Abba Bronspeigel |
| Rabbi Norman Lamm, Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik 10th Yahrzeit Webcast |
| Rabbi Alan Brill(YU class on Modern Orthodoxy) |
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Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb
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Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein
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| The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi Hanan Balk Memories of the Rav Rabbi Aharon Kahn Rabbi Hershel Reichman, 613.org Chabura 1 in Gemora Kedushin based on Shuirim by Rav Yosef Soloveichik - Mitsvah Kedushin and Kesef Kedushin (59) Chabura 2 |
Video |
| Repent! A Survey of Al Ha Teshuva, Rabbi Hershel Reichman (Naaleh) |
| The Legacy of the Rav, Rav Hershel Schachter (Torahweb.org) |
The Legacy of the Rav, Rav Meyer Twersky (Torah
Symposium
The Soul of the Rav: Rabbi Soloveitchik's Halakhic Vision - Rabbi Hershel Schachter.
From Brisk to Boston: The Sermons of Rav Soloveitchik - Dr. Arnold Lustiger.
Rav Soloveitchik and the Search for G-d - Rabbi Shalom Carmy.
Rav Soloveitchik and the Problem of Evil - Dr. David Shatz. Discussion: Lonely Man Of Faith - Ethan Isenberg.
Panel Discussion: Rav Soloveitchik: The Complex Legacy.
A recording of the lectures is available at Torah In Motion
ATID: TRANSLATING" THE TORAH AND PHILOSOPHY OF RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK zt"l TO CONTEMPORARY JEWISH EDUCATION
ATID: The Lonely Man of Faith at 40
New Insights and Reflections
Rabbi Yitzchak Blau שרגא בר-און
Mali Brofsky ד"ר אביעד הכהן Rabbi Shalom Carmy הרב חיים נבון Dr. Chaim Cohen חנה קהת Rabbi Zvi Grumet הרב יובל שרלו Rabbi Jeffrey Saks Rabbi Mayer Schiller
Studies Exploring the Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought
An International Conference Commemorating the Centenary of his Birth
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, December 29–31, 2003
Opening Session
Panel Debate: Inherent Tensions in Modern Orthodoxy
Aggada and Midrash: Social and Political Repercussions Other
Thought of Rabbi Soloveitchik, Stern and Yeshiva College Final Exam Questions, Shalom Carmy, YU.edu)
Talmudic Questions Blog
Past Events
Rabbi Jeffery Saks (Part II)
Nov.-Dec. 2011
Is
mankind meant to master its surrounding or submit passively to God?
What is the place of Jewish faith in the modern world? How does
modernity pose a challenge to religious life? What is the viability of
forming community today? These questions stand at the center of Rabbi
Soloveitchik's masterful "The Lonely Man of Faith" and will be explored
as we make a close reading of the essay and exploration of the sources
on which the Rav zt"l drew in composing one of the 20th century's most
significant treatments of religious philosophy and Jewish faith.
Nov. 14, 2011. The Jewish Center, 131 West 86th Street, in New York.
Monday
11/21/2011 at 6:00pm at the NYU Law School on “Can the Halakhah Suspend
One’s Emotions?: Rabbi Soloveitchik, Maimonides, and Rashi on the Laws
of Mourning.” Lawrence Kaplan
Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 PM
Yeshiva University Seforim Sale, Panel discussion
In celebration of the publication of Majesty and Humility: The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik ,
Rabbi Michael Rosensweig ’73
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter
Dr. David Shatz
Rabbi Reuven Ziegler
Rabbi Ziegler also spoke at book launches in the following cities:
Writings of Rav Soloveitchik Jan 17 -31. Tuesday 3:00PM EST, Rabbi Jeffrey Saks
A survey of some of the major themes in Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's
thought and religious philosophy as seen in his shorter essays.
Lonely Man of Faith Comes to Passaic, NJ
Rav Soloveitchik's Yamim Noraim
Rabbi Jeffrey Saks
Tues. 3 PM EDT
Sept. 2012
Rabbi Beinish Ginsburg
YUTorah.org
48 classes on the Rav including
OtherEssays and ArticlesThe Mesorah Torah Journal
"Each issue of Mesorah contains two parts: The first part containsChiddushei Torah from Rabbi Yoseph Dov Soloveitchik,
the Rav, zt"l, originally heard orally at Shiurim that were transcribed
at the time by his students. The second section comprises original
Torah articles about contemporary issues related to Kashruth."
Koltorah.org (Rabbi Chaim Jachter)Assorted
"An Index to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man," Jeffrey Saks, The Torah U'Maddah Journal, Volume 11, 2002-3
Jeffrey R. Woolf
Article by Rabbi Dr. Yitzchok Boaz Gottleib (Mircaz Limudei Yahadut v'Ruach, In Hebrew)
FATE, DESTINY & SHIVAT TZIYON: The RAV on Religious Zionism (Dr. Moshe Sokolow, lookstein.org)
Introduction to the Philosophy of Rav Soloveitchik (Rabbi Ronnie Ziegler, 25 essays)
J. B. Soloveitchik and the Lonely Self (Harold M. Schulweis, Valley Beth Shalom)
Lonely Man of Faith at 40 (ATID, Symposium)
The Teaching of the Masora Through the Thought of the Rav(Yaakov Mintz, ATID)
"The Religious Philosophy of R. Joseph Soloveitchik", Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, Tradition 14/2 (Fall 1973)
"Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Halakhah", Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, The Jewish Law Annual vol. 7, Harwood Academic Publishers-The Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University Law School "Models of the Ideal Religious Personality in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik", Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought IV (1984/85), in Hebrew "On the Problem of Halacha's Status in Judaism: A Study of the Attitude of Rabbi Josef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik, R. Shihor, Forum (Spring and Summer 1987) "Joseph Soloveitchik: Lonely Man of Faith", David Singer and Moshe Sokol, Modern Judaism vol. 2 no. 3, October 1982 (Johns Hopkins University Press) "Halakhic Man: A Review Essay", Elliot Dorff, Modern Judaism vol. 6 no. 1, February 1986 David Hartman wrote a response to Elliot Dorff's review. "The Halakhic Hero: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik", David Hartman, Modern Judaism vol. 9 no. 3, October 1989
"Grief and Joy in the Writings of Rabbi Soloveitchik," Alex Sztuden, Tradition, Winter 2010
The Mystical Spirituality of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HESHEY ZELCE, Hakira, Volume 11
Two Dreams? By Rav Hershel Schachter, Torahweb.org
Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (YU Commentator)
‘Rav’s’ Haggadah Is Hot Order (Jewish Week)
Review of Yiddish Drashos and Writings (Dr. Arnold Lustiger)
"Grief and Joy in the Writings of Rabbi Soloveitchik," Alex Sztuden, Tradition, Winter 2010
The Mystical Spirituality of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, HESHEY ZELCE, Hakira, Volume 11
Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Human Knowledge: Between Maimonidean and Neo-Kantian Philosophy
Aviezer Ravitzky Modern Judaism Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1986), pp. 157-188
The Man of Faith and Religious Dialogue: Revisiting "Confrontation"
Modern Judaism, Volume 25, Number 3, October 2005, pp. 290-315 by: Korn,
Eugene B., 1940-
Rabbis Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Abraham Joshua Heschel on
Jewish-Christian Relations Modern Judaism, Volume 24, Number 3, October
2004, pp. 251-271, by: Kimelman, Reuven.
"Rushing in Where Angels Fear to Tread": Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik,
The Rabbinical Council of America, Modern Orthodox Jewry and the Second
Vatican Council Modern Judaism, Volume 29, Number 3, October 2009, pp.
351-385 by: Yigal Sklarin
Time Awareness as a Source of Spirituality in the Thought of Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik Modern Judaism, Volume 32, Number 1, February
2012, pp. 54-75 by: Jeffrey R. Woolf
Prayer and Religious Consciousness: An Analysis of Jewish Prayer in the
Works of Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Abraham Joshua
Heschel Modern Judaism, Volume 23, Number 2, May 2003, pp. 105-125 by:
Hartman, David, 1931-
Reproach, Recognition and Respect: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and
Orthodoxy's Mid-Century Attitude Toward Non-Orthodox Denominations
American Jewish History, Volume 89, Number 2, June 2001, pp. 193-214 by:
Seth Farber
U-vikashtem Mi-sham: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Response to Martin
Buber's Religious Existentialism Modern Judaism, Volume 18, Number 2,
May 1998, pp. 93-118 by: Berger, Michael S.
Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and the Role of the Ethical Modern
Judaism, Volume 23, Number 1, February 2003, pp. 12-31 by: Spero,
Shubert.
Incompatible Parallels: Soloveitchik and Berkovits on Religious
Experience, Commandment and the Dimension of History Modern Judaism,
Volume 28, Number 2, May 2008, pp. 173-203 by: Jonathan Cohen
From Cooperation to Conflict: Rabbi Professor Emanuel Rackman, Rav
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and the Evolution of American Modern Orthodoxy
Modern Judaism, Volume 30, Number 1, February 2010, pp. 46-68 by:
Lawrence Kaplan
"Like Pebbles on the Seashore": J. B. Soloveitchik on Suffering Modern
Judaism, Volume 24, Number 2, May 2004, pp. 150-164 by: Millen, Rochelle
L., 1943
Transcending Time: Elements of Romanticism in the Thought of Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchk Modern Judaism, Volume 30, Number 3, October 2010,
pp. 233-246 by: Moshe Sokol
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and American Jewry's response to the Holocaust.: An article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies by Haskel Lookstein (Sep 22, 2005)
Loving
the law: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik provides the antidote, R. R. Reno
writes, to Christianity's antinomian tempations.: An article from: First
... A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life by R.R. Reno (Feb 8, 2012)
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"The students of the Maharil (Rabbi Yaakov Moelin, 1365-1427) offer a chilling story about their teacher in his collection of laws pertaining to Yom Kippur.2 The Maharil was once chazzan in the town of Regensburg during the Yomim Noraim, and decided to insert a piyyut into Mussaf composed by Rabbeinu Ephraim, who happened to be buried in Regensburg. Although the leaders of the town informed him that this was not their practice, he did not listen to them based upon his logic, saying that it would be an honor to Rabbeinu Ephraim to recite the piyyut. A few days later, on Yom Kippur, the Maharil’s daughter died. He understood that this was a punishment for changing the minhag hamakom (local tradition).3 This background provides a remarkable insight into why the Maharil emphasized the importance and centrality of minhagim, and how he became the single most influential and accepted codifier of Ashkenazi practices.
"Writing during the time of the sprouting of the Reform movement, the Chasam Sofer (Rabbi Moshe Sofer, 1762-1839) was a strong advocate of keeping minhagim. He felt that unorthodox practice began by “simply” changing a few minhagim. As such, he called those that change minhagim “violators of the Torah.”4 This remark is based upon Tosfos, Menachos 20b (s.v. Nifsal) — “minhag avoteinu…Torah” — the tradition of our forefathers is considered Torah.
Rabbi Yosef Kalinksy, Minhagim on Chanukah: Dreidel and Sufganiyo, from Chanuka to Go -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Adherence to the exact Mesorah (Tradition) of the congregation was emphasized by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt”l, who explained that the traditional musical nusach (rendition) provides the proper interpretation for the words of tefillah. Concerning the Yomim Nora’im, Rav Soloveitchik stated: “The Mesorah of the nefesh (soul), of experiencing God, is expressed in halachic terms by the Remo, who rules (אורח חיים תריט:א) that one may not alter the liturgy and tunes used by one’s congregation on the High Holidays. The liturgy and tunes employed by each community affect one’s emotional response to the High Holidays and constitute the Mesorah of the nefesh.“
R' Avraham Gordimer
https://www.ou.org/life/inspiration/a-german-jewish-chanukah-in-upper-manhattan/#
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In closing I will end with a telling, if not prophetic, excerpt from the eulogy for Rav Jospeh B. Soloveitchik Z"L, delivered by Rabbi Dr.Norman Lamm:
“We must guard, therefore, against any revisionism, any attempts to misinterpret the Rav's work in both worlds, akin to the distortion that has been perpetrated on the ideas of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch. The Rav was not a lamdan who happened to have and use a smattering of general culture, and he was certainly not a philosopher who happened to be a talmid hakham, a Torah scholar. He was who he was, and he was not a simple man. We must accept him on his terms, as a highly complicated, profound, and broad-minded personality, and we must be thankful for him. Certain burgeoning revisionisms may well attempt to disguise and distort the Rav's uniqueness by trivializing one or the other aspect of his rich personality and work, but they must be confronted at once. When the late R. Yehezkel Abramski eulogized R. Hayyim Brisker, he quoted the Talmudic eulogy, "If a fire has blazed up among the cedars, what shall the hyssop do," and interpreted that as: after the giants have been taken from us, who knows what the dwarfs who follow them will do to their teachings….”
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"My teacher, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik זכר צדיק לברכה (who was once described by the founder of the Ponevezh Yeshiva as the greatest Rosh Yeshiva in the world), used to note that the amount that the Priests (for example) used to receive for their services was way out of proportion for what they actually did. According to both the Bible and the Talmud, the priests were divided into twenty-four divisions, which served for a week at a time. Each division was sub-divided into seven families. In other words, most priests worked for only two days a year!!! (Most Levites, I might add, never worked in the Temple). So, asked Rav Soloveitchik, how do the Priests and Levites come to deserve really munificent public support?
"The answer is provided by Maimonides himself, and conveniently ignored by the Haredi establishment. ‘This tribe was set apart to serve God and to minister to Him, to teach His straight ways and righteous ordinances to the multitudes.’ The Levites weren’t paid to study. They were paid to teach! They were paid to serve the Jewish people."
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Shirum on Succah according to Reshimos Shiurim, based on the notes of the Talmud classes of Rabbi Soloveitchik.
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