
On Repentance
Joseph B. Soloveitchik(Author)
Toby Press LLC, The
Published on 17. August 2017
Book
Hardback
245 pages
978-1-59264-478-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Milford
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59264-478-0 (9781592644780)
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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (19031993) born in Eastern Europe into a family of renowned rabbis. Initially trained in the scholarship of the sacred texts of Judaism, he enrolled at twenty-three at the University of Berlin in order to study physics, mathematics, and philosophy. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the philosopher Hermann Cohen. In 1932, he accepted the position of chief rabbi of Boston, where he resided until his death. In 1937, he founded the Maimonides School there. For over four decades he commuted to New York City in order to teach at Yeshiva University, where his Talmudic and philosophical lectures gained renown for their probity and breadth. He was regarded throughout the world as a leading authority on the meaning of the Jewish law and as the leading intellectual figure in the effort to build bridges between Orthodox Judaism and the modern world.