Authors: Marc D. Angel
ISBN-13: 9780881255782, ISBN-10: 0881255785
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik served for more than forty years as the preeminent authority of centrist Orthodoxy, both as a halakhic decisor and interpreter of Jewish thought and theology. In his own person he demonstrated that the ideal Torah sage is creative, open-minded, compassionate, visionary and realist, profoundly committed to the world of Torah and Jewish law - and at the same time a sophisticated modern thinker. His contributions have inspired his many students and others to revisit his writings and lectures in order to better fathom his work. This collection of essays provides a panoramic view of the many vital subjects on which he held forth, and thus is a superb introduction to the work of this remarkable figure.
Acknowledgments | ||
About the Contributors | ||
Introduction | ||
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchick as Posek of Post-Modern Orthodoxy | 3 | |
The Unity and Structure of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Thought | 25 | |
Hermeneutics in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 57 | |
The Lonely Man of Faith Confronts the Ish Ha-Halakhah | 89 | |
Of Eagle's Flight and Snail's Pace | 109 | |
"Ger ve-Toshav Anokhi": Modernity and Traditionalism in the Life and Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 125 | |
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and the Philosophy of Halakha | 147 | |
Towards a Genuine Jewish Philosophy | 179 | |
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Early Epistemology | 209 | |
Repentant Man - A High Level in Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Typology of Man | 229 | |
Creative Repentance: On Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Concept of Teshuvah | 263 | |
The Centrality of Creativity in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 277 | |
On the Jewish People in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik | 293 | |
Pluralism and the Category of the Ethical | 325 |