In this excerpt from a talk to a student assembly at Yeshiva University in 1960, Rav Soloveitchik tells a story of a visit to a secular kibbutz in 1935.
HaRav Joseph B. Soloveitchik ztz”l, affectionately known as “the Rav,” was the scion of a legendary rabbinic family, the great-grandson of his namesake, the Beis HaLevi. Rav Soloveitchik was renowned as a Talmudist and philosopher, celebrated for his insightful synthesis of Torah ethos into our post-modern world. As rosh yeshiva of RIETS, the Rav o...Show more