Insights of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Discourses on Fundamental Theological Issues in Judaism

by Saul Weiss

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742544697
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	01/28/2005
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.84(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Rabbi Saul Weiss is author of Torah Values: A Midrashic Approach and Insights: A Talmudic Treasury (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2). He lives in the Boston area.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Creation and God
Chapter 2 Emunah
Chapter 3 Torah
Chapter 4 Observance and Experience
Chapter 5 Prayer and Benedictions
Chapter 6 Ethical Virtues and Moral Values
Chapter 7 Man and Woman
Chapter 8 Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Chapter 9 The Three Festivals
Chapter 10 Mourning and Tisha B'Av
Chapter 11 The People of Israel
Chapter 12 The State of Israel
Chapter 13 Aspects of Kedushah
Chapter 14 Teshuvah—Repentance
Chapter 15 Personal and Family Outlook