Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik ZT”L

Each volume includes an introduction of the Rav’s thought, an introduction explaining the book’s basic themes, summaries of the individual essays, and indices.

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The Emergence of Ethical Man
EDITED BY MICHAEL BERGER
For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered the question what it means to be human. Rabbi Soloveitchik answers the question, relying on both scientific research and classical Jewish sources. He explains how a thoroughly naturalistic setting could give birth to human personality, and to Judaism’s expectation of moral character and self-transcendence. The resulting religious anthropology is a startlingly fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, and highlights Judaism’s distinctive view among those of other religious traditions.
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Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships
EDITED BY DAVID SHATZ AND JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY
Family Redeemed presents a Jewish theory of marriage and sexuality, parenthood, and the duty to honor and revere one’s parents. The essays in this volume focus on family relationships—between husbands and wives, between parents and children. The analyses are rooted in a theory of personality which emerges from the Rav’s brilliant interpretations of biblical, talmudic, midrashic, kabbalistic and halachic texts, as well as from his command of Western philosophy and literature.
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Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications
EDITED BY RABBI NATHANIEL HELFGOT
Community, Covenant and Commitment includes more than seventy private and public letters written by Rabbi Soloveitchik, as well as a number of detailed interviews conducted with him over the span of some forty years. The volume is divided into sections focusing on critical areas in which rabbis as well as political, educational, and communal leaders turned to Rabbi Soloveitchik for guidance and insight. In addition, it includes selected letters initiated by the Rav on topics close to his heart in areas of communal, theological, philosophical and personal concerns.
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Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering and the Human Condition
EDITED BY DAVID SHATZ, JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY, AND REUVEN ZIEGLER
The topics of mourning and suffering are among the most salient in the writings of Rabbi Soloveitchik, both when he describes personal experiences and when he articulates his philosophy. The essays in this volume powerfully illustrate the Rav’s peerless ability to derive a Jewish understanding of both God and the human condition from biblical and halachic sources. The Rav explores such topics as the stages of mourning, the relationship between mourning practices and the mourner’s inner experience, the contrasts between individual and communal mourning, the significance of suffering, and the importance of emotions in the Jewish world view.
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Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer
EDITED BY SHALOM CARMY
The biblical command to serve God“with all your heart” is interpreted by Jewish tradition to refer to prayer. The Rav here explores the crucial interface between living religious experience and halachic norms—the hallmark of his work. He analyzes the Amidah, the Shema, and other biblical and liturgical texts, and also considers the tension between human dependence and exaltation, the ethical and the aesthetic, the presence and absence of God, and the yearning for stability and the desire for change.
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Days Of Deliverance: Essays On Purim And Hanukkah
EDITED BY ELI D. CLARK, JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY, AND REUVEN ZIEGLER
Purim and Hanukkah share a rabbinic origin, a festive character, and a generally informal nature. In the essays collected here, both holidays serve as subtext for Rabbi Soloveitchik’s classic search for religious meaning in a seemingly cold and arbitrary universe. For him, Purim and Hanukkah stand at the nexus of faith and history, of human effort and divine intervention, of solemnity and joyous celebration.
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Festival Of Freedom: Essays On Pesah And The Haggadah
EDITED BY DR. JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY AND RABBI REUVEN ZIEGLER.
For Rabbi Soloveitchik, the Passover Seder is not simply a formal ritual or ceremonial catechism. Rather, the Seder night is “endowed with a unique and fascinating quality, exalted in its holiness and shining with a dazzling beauty.” In these ten essays, the Rav explains how the resonances of the Seder extend far beyond the confines of one night. The Rav explicates in new and creative ways nuances in the biblical and rabbinic texts associated with Passover. In the process, he opens vistas not just on the Jewish people’s past, but on its present and future.
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The Lord is Righteous in All His Ways: Reflections on the Tish’ah Be-Av Kinot
EDITED BY JACOB J. SCHACTER
What is the role of Tish’ah be-Av at the beginning of the twenty-first century, close to two thousand years after the destruction of the second Beit ha-Mikdash? What is the halachic character of Tish’ah be-Av? What themes in the Kinot (liturgical poetry) recited on that day resonate in modern times? For more than a decade Rabbi Soloveitchik spent virtually the entire day of Tish‘ah be-Av expounding upon its major themes and reading and closely analyzing the Kinot. This work unlocks entire areas of Jewish liturgy and Jewish thought that had previously been closed.
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