List Books » Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism
Authors: Saul Weiss
ISBN-13: 9780742544697, ISBN-10: 0742544699
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 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.
Ch. I | Creation and God | 1 |
Ch. II | Emunah | 13 |
Ch. III | Torah | 23 |
Ch. IV | Observance and experience | 39 |
Ch. V | Prayer and benedictions | 51 |
Ch. VI | Ethical virtues and moral values | 61 |
Ch. VII | Man and woman | 81 |
Ch. VIII | Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur | 87 |
Ch. IX | The three festivals | 99 |
Ch. X | Mourning and Tisha B'Av | 107 |
Ch. XI | The people of Israel | 119 |
Ch. XII | The state of Israel | 135 |
Ch. XIII | Aspects of Kedushah | 141 |
Ch. XIV | Teshuvah - repentance | 147 |
Ch. XV | Personal and family outlook | 155 |