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Article: THE RAV: THE WORLD OF RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK, vol. 1.(Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- June 1, 2000
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THE RAV: THE WORLD OF RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK. By AARON RAKEFFET-ROTHKOFF. Ktav. Vol. 1: 296 pp. Vol. 2: 300 pp. $35 per volume.
FOR MOST OF HIS fifty years as Orthodoxy's 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 step of studying philosophy at the University of Bedim He later moved to the United States, where as an indefatigable lecturer in Boston and New York he made his primary mark as a Talmud teacher of legendary creativity and expository powers. Equally sovereign at ...
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