Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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Oct 28, 2026
Hershel SchachterHOST
So we once had one of the professors here, Nishi, who was explaining how is it possible biologically that you have green blood.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Someone told Rabbi Soloveitchik about this lecture.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He said, that's ridiculous.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Dam hayarik means yellow or brown.
Hershel SchachterHOST
The only time you have this din is when she has asura to some people and materas to other people.
Hershel SchachterHOST
What is that all about? So Rabbi Soloveitchik suggested Pshat.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Then we looked and we saw that's what it says in the Seif Hayosh of Rabbeinu Tam.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He said, write Pshat.
Hershel SchachterHOST
In the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days of the days So there was a woman, her husband was a Rebbe and Yeshiva somewhere, and she taught also in a school for younger children.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So she sent a letter to Rabbi Soloveitchik that in her school, to have a required reading, Rabbi Soloveitchik's drosha told Dodi Lofik.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He spoke about the sixth, that Jerusalem is knocking on the door.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He wants us to come to Eretz Yisroel.
Shmuel SilberHOST
And there are many, much rabbinic ink has been spilled over the ages trying to understand what is the message of Yaqid.
Shmuel SilberHOST
You know, for example, Rabbi Soloveitchik, Zechariah says so beautifully.
Shmuel SilberHOST
He says, I'll actually quote to you.
Shmuel SilberHOST
He says, the binding of Isaac, he says, is the characterization of the religious life as a dialectic between victory and defeat, majesty and humility, man the creative master, and man the obedient servant.
Shmuel SilberHOST
And if you don't have that skill set, that's why you don't realize if you raise coddled, spoiled children who always win and always get a trophy, They will be adults who do not know how to deal with setback.
Shmuel SilberHOST
And life is filled with setback.
Shmuel SilberHOST
Rabbi Soloveitchik says something so beautiful.
Shmuel SilberHOST
The entire essence of the Akedah is Avram Avinu.
Avi HaviviHOST
But again, but I want to point out people like Heschel.
Avi HaviviHOST
We've had Heschel, Soloveitchik, Reb Zalman.
Avi HaviviHOST
For them, it's interesting.
Avi HaviviHOST
They don't say, here's the formula for how you know you're experiencing God.
Hershel SchachterHOST
We have a Tartar Esas.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Rabbi Soloveitchik used to be a professor in law school at Pace University.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So he published a whole essay about this.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He used to go to Rabbi Soloveitchik's shiur on Tuesday nights.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Rabbi Soloveitchik liked this idea that he got picked up for that.
Hershel SchachterHOST
He wrote a whole essay about this.
Hershel SchachterHOST
in modern physics they have such a thing it's a haqqira what electricity is whether it's a something or a something
Marc GafniGUEST
So there had not been a full empowerment of that.
Marc GafniGUEST
Joseph Soloveitchik, very important Talmudist and religious existentialist Orthodox started a co-ed school called Maimonides in Boston and really kind of started at a place called Stern College, an entire study hall for women to be empowered in the study of Talmud.
Marc GafniGUEST
Right? And so that was not true simply because the social constructs didn't make it possible.
Marc GafniGUEST
And clearly new voices need to emerge.
Dov Ber CohenHOST
And you get down.
Dov Ber CohenHOST
And Soloveitchik says, many Jews, they don't want to pray, they want to have prayed.
Dov Ber CohenHOST
Okay, I got it out of the way.
Dov Ber CohenHOST
So we got to think what's going on here.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Anybody here learn any Atzion? I think it had Sion.
Hershel SchachterHOST
I think they don't say, I think they, Rabbi Soloveitchik suggests, well, we learned these did it in Shia.
Hershel SchachterHOST
So he said, there would be a good idea, we should make a Mishaberech in between one Ali and the other.
Hershel SchachterHOST
Let's make one Mishaberech at the end for all the people God loves.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
If you look into...
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
The world of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, published by a guy named Aaron Rakefet, you'll find all eight places in the footnote.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
And this was revolutionary.
Aaron Rakeffet-RothkoffHOST
And if the reading is ben nida, then you have a tremendous source.
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