For most of his fifty years as Orthodoxys premier thinker, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was known simply as “the Rav.” Born in 1903 in Russia, trained by his father in the Brisk (Brest“Litovsk) school of Talmud study (which his grandfather invented), he took the then unusual . . . . Continue Reading »
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