The Ten Levels of Sanctity and the Challenges of the Orthodox Rabbinate

Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik

A portion of an address presented to the Yeshiva University Rabbinic Alumni on March 1, 1956.

 0:00 - 3:43 - The natural yearning for sanctity (Kedusha)

3:43 - 5:44 - The religious zeal of the uneducated Jew

5:44 - 7:20 - There is always a higher level of Kedusha

7:20- 9:35 - The Ten Kedushos of the Mishnah in Keilim

9:35 - 10:20 - Ben Gurion's mistaken idea

10:20 - 12:32 - Yearning for, but never attaining, the highest level

12:32 - 15:08 - The challenges of the Orthodox Rabbinate in the 1950's