Scholarly Man of Faith Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

by Kanarfogel, Ephraim; Schwartz, Dov

• ISBN13: 9789655242812
• ISBN10: 9655242811
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-06-03
• Publisher: Urim Publications

Summary

This book sets forward a series of interesting and less-explored aspects of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings. These essays delve into the Rav's approach toward understanding biblical figures, his views on emotions and intellect, his appreciation of R. Yehudah ha-Levi, his understanding of medieval history, and the implications for modernity.

Author Biography

Ephraim Kanarfogel is a Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies and a winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the Goldstein-Goren International Book Prize in Jewish Thought. Dov Schwartz is Professor of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University

Table of Contents

Introduction, 7

Shalom Carmy, "In Many Respects God was Closer to Abraham than He was to Moses," Themes in Emergence of Ethical Man, 11

Shira Weiss, Biblical Hermeneutics in the Thought of R. Soloveitchik: A Preliminary Appraisal of the Influence of R. Yehudah Halevi, 27

Alex Sztuden, The Identity of Love and Cognition in the Thought of R. Joseph Soloveitchik, 49

Ephraim Kanarfogel, The History of the Tosafists and their Literary Corpus according to Rav Soloveitchik's Interpretrations of the Qinot for Tishah B'Av, 75

Daniel Rynhold, Science of Hermeneutics? Rav Soloveitchik's Scientific Method Revisited, 109

David Shatz, Contemporary Scholarship on Rabbi Soloveitchik's Thought: Where We Are, Where We Can Go, 135

Contributors, 197