Halakhic man

Then I brought A more traditional Jewish thinker to back me up on this, which is Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, known colloquially as Rav, the rabbi.

And what Joseph Soloveitchik talks about in his book, Halachic Man, he says, no one needs the aid of others to come close to God, which got me thinking about the text in Galatians.

the Ashrei prayer, which says, that everyone who calls out to God, God is close to them.

And what this says to me is that the task of each and every one of us is to bring God into whatever space that you're in.

It's in the book, I think in a footnote.

He translated Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man into English in the 1980s.

And he told me, Kaplan, that he went u-up to Boston to show Soloveitchik the galleys.

And he's waiting in outside Soloveitchik's office in his home, in his-- actually his daughter's home in Boston, uh, the Twerskys.