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Title

Community, covenant, and commitment : selected letters and communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik / edited by Nathaniel Helfgot.

Author

Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov.

Publication

[Jersey City] : Published for the Toras HoRav Foundation by Ktav Pub. House, ©2005.

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Additional Authors

Helfgoṭ, Netanʼel.

Description

xli, 352 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Community, Covenant and Commitment is the fourth volume in the series MeOtzar HoRav: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. It includes more than seventy private and public letters written by "the Rav"--As Rabbi Soloveitchik was widely known - as well as a number of detailed interviews conducted with him over the span of some forty years. These materials give us a further glimpse into the prodigious thought of this leader of American Orthodoxy in the crucial decades both prior to and following the Second World War." "The volume contains six sections containing letters and communications on areas of: Communal and Public Policy, Educational Issues, American Orthodoxy and the Rabbinate, Religious Zionism and the State of Israel, Inter-Religious Affair and Personal and Philosophical Reflections."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• Meotzar horav ; v. 4
• Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov, 1903-1993. Works. Selections. English. 2002 ; v. 4.

Alternative Title

Selected letters and communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Subject

• Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov > Correspondence
• Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov, 1903-1993
• Since 1750
• Orthodox Judaism > United States
• Judaism > 20th century
• Rabbis > United States > Correspondence
• Judaism > History > Modern period, 1750-
• Judaism > Modern period
• Judaism
• Orthodox Judaism
• Rabbis
• United States

Genre/Form

• History
• Personal correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. On depiction of human images on stained glass windows in an interfaith Chapel -- 2. On directing foundlings to Jewish welfare agencies -- 3. On drafting rabbis and rabbinical students for the U.S. armed forces chaplaincy -- 4. On humane methods of handling meat for slaughter -- 5. Statement of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik to the National Advisory Committee to the Secretary Of Agriculture, July 21, 1961 -- 6. Statement of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik to the national advisory committee to the secretary of agriculture, October 6, 1964 -- 7. Memorandum of agreement between RIETS, Yeshiva College and the graduate-level Yeshiva in Boston opened by Rabbi Soloveitchik -- 8. Talmud study for girls in Yeshiva elementary and high schools (a) -- 9. Talmud study for girls in Yeshiva elementary and high schools (b) -- 10. On the creation of Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- 11. On Yeshiva University's Rabbinical school program -- 12. On orthodox participation in the Bible translation of the Jewish publication society and communal tercentenary celebrations -- 13. On communal tercentenary celebrations -- 14. On inserting memorial prayers for Holocaust victims on Passover night at the Seder -- 15. On a proposed service authored by the Mizrahi for the eve of Yom ha-Atzma'ut -- 16. On prayer in a synagogue with mixed pews (a) -- 17. On prayer in a synagogue with mixed pews (b) -- 18. On prayer in a synagogue with mixed pews (c) -- 19. On prayer in a synagogue with mixed pews (d) -- 20. On prayer in a synagogue with mixed pews (e) -- 21. On orthodoxy and non-orthodox movements -- 22. On RCA participation in the Synagogue Council of America (a) -- 23. On RCA participation in the Synagogue Council of America (b) -- 24. On RCA participation in the Synagogue Council of America (c).
• 25. On the propriety of a synagogue owning a company that is open on Shabbat -- 26. On the place of the state of Israel in Jewish thought -- 27. On the "who is a Jew?" Question (a) -- 28. On the "who is a Jew?" Question (b) -- 29. Declining the offer to submit his candidacy for the position of chief rabbi of the state of Israel (a) -- 30. On the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (b) -- 31. On the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (c) -- 32. On the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (d) -- 33. On the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (e) -- 34. On the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (f) -- 35. On the Rav's identification with the Mizrahi (a) -- 36. On the Rav's identification with the Mizrahi (b) -- 37. On the Rav's identification with the Mizrahi (c) -- 38. On the Rav's identification with the Mizrahi (d) -- 39. On Christian missionary schools in Israel -- 40. On religion and state in Israel (a) -- 41.
• On religion and state in Israel (b) -- 42. On religion and state in Israel (c) -- 43. On remaining in the diaspora -- 44. On Jews in the diaspora expressing views on security issues facing the state of Israel -- 45. On Israel, the diaspora and religious issues -- 46. On political and religious issues in Israel and the diaspora -- 47. On Jewish participation in the Vatican II Ecumenical Council of 1962 (a) -- 48. On Jewish participation in the Vatican II Ecumenical Council of 1962 (b) -- 49. On the calendar reform proposal and the Vatican -- 50. On relations with the Catholic hierarchy -- 51. On interfaith relationships (a) -- 52. On interfaith relationships (b) -- 53. On RCA participation in an interreligious conference -- 54. Topic for a Jewish philosophical essay -- 55. On the nature of the Halakhah -- 56. On learning the works of Maimonides -- 57. On the knowledge of God in Maimonidean thought.
• 58. On the love of God in Maimonidean thought.
• 59. On Hasidism -- 60. On the commandment to redeem the first-born -- 61. Comments on Maimonides' laws of repentance -- 62. On the Yiddish language -- 63. On the Teshuvah discourse of 1960 -- 64. On blowing the Shofar in the silent Rosh ha-Shanah Amidah -- 65. On the Halakhic sanctity of the temple and the synagogue -- 66. On a draft of U-Vikkashtem mi-Sham -- 67. Insights into the Book Of Lamentations (a) -- 68. Insights into the Book Of Lamentations (b) -- 69. On the problem of evil -- 70. On the commandment of loving one's fellow Jew -- 71. Note on a book of Chaim Grade -- 72. On the Tuesday night public Shi'urim.

ISBN

• 0881258725
• 9780881258721

LCCN

2004029978

OCLC

• ocm57319543
• 57319543
• SCSB-1355726

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library