{"product_id":"scholarly-man-of-faith-studies-in-the-thought-and-writings-of-rabbi-joseph-b-soloveitchik","title":"Scholarly Man of Faith: Studies in the Thought and Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik","description":"\u003ch1 itemprop=\"name\" class=\"product-single__title\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); margin: 0px 0px 6.66667px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif uppercase rgb letter-spacing:=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: font-weight: letter-spacing: normal text-transform: none\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: font-weight: letter-spacing: normal text-transform: none\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eThis volume addresses a series of fascinating yet less-explored aspects of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik's teachings and thinking. The essays included delve into the Rav's approach toward understanding biblical figures in a comparative light, his views on emotion and intellect and their interrelationship, his appreciation of Yehudah ha-Levi as a seminal Jewish thinker, his unusual understanding of the history of medieval rabbinic literature and the implications for modernity, and his attitude and approach toward scientific method. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliographic survey of contemporary scholarship on Rav Soloveitchik's writings and thought. Long-time students and listeners, and an ever-increasing cadre of newer devotees, will not fail to be deeply impressed and inspired by the range, profundity, and humanity of the Rav's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003ework\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eContents\u003c\/span\u003e:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\u003cul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eShalom Carmy, \"In Many Respects God was Closer to Abraham than He was to Moses,\" Themes in Emergence of Ethical Man\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eShira Weiss, Biblical Hermeneutics in the Thought of R. Soloveitchik: A Preliminary Appraisal of the Influence of R. Yehudah Halevi\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eAlex Sztuden, The Identity of Love and Cognition in the Thought of R. Joseph Soloveitchik\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eEphraim Kanarfogel, The History of the Tosafists and their Literary Corpus according to Rav Soloveitchik's Interpretrations of the Qinot for Tishah B'Av\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eDaniel Rynhold, Science of Hermeneutics? Rav Soloveitchik's Scientific Method Revisited\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eDavid Shatz, Contemporary Scholarship on Rabbi Soloveitchik's Thought: Where We Are, Where We Can Go\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif\u003eContributors\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eAbout the Editors:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(18, 35, 46); font-family: \" source sans pro sans-serif font-size: background-color: rgb\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eEphraim Kanarfogel\u003c\/span\u003e is the E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Law at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the Goldstein-Goren International Book Prize in Jewish Thought, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal,\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e Jewish History\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eDov Schwartz\u003c\/span\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, where he heads the Warhaftig Research Institute for Religious Zionism. He is a winner of the EMET Prize in the Humanities, and serves as editor of \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eDa'at\u003c\/span\u003e, a leading journal of Jewish thought, and the bibliographic journal \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eAlei Sefer.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003eShalom Carmy, \"In Many Respects God was Closer to Abraham than He was to Moses,\" Themes in Emergence of Ethical Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: \" palatino linotype antiqua serif font-size:\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"IsraelBookShop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43875442557093,"sku":"978-9655242812","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-9655242812_b93d0059-3822-4fe6-b8db-430e352cdf45.jpg?v=1725094152","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/scholarly-man-of-faith-studies-in-the-thought-and-writings-of-rabbi-joseph-b-soloveitchik","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}