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Title: Halakhic Man by Joseph B. Soloveitchik ISBN: 0-8276-0397-5 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended
Comment: This awesome collection of short essays was first published in Hebrew in 1944, and was finally made available to the English public in 1983. It is divided into two main sections. "Halakhic Man: His World View and His Life" makes up 15 paragraphs, and "Halakhic Man: His Creative Capacity" makes up the last 6 of them. The reading can be both soul-sparing and awe-inspiring: it cuts like a knife in expurging the orlah of mysticism, is strong as flint in breaking the slumber of irrational and out-worldly superstitions. A vibrant pamphlet against religious ignorance, a mitnagedic manifesto against spiritual forgeries, a sophisticated denunciation of the confused aberrations of "homo religiosus," a rational stand for an objective view of Halakha, with both feet solidly planted in the ground.
Rav Joseph Soloveitchik, "The Rav" as he is commonly known, did only commit a few books to writing, among which the one above and an another collection of essays entitled "The Lonely Man of Faith." Both works can shine like beacons of faith for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the stumbled.
Rating: 5
Summary: a warning
Comment: This book (basically a comparison of mainstream Talmudic scholarship and mysticism, and an endorsement of the former) struck me as the kind of book I might get more out of in a few years, when I know a lot more and have read a lot more -- and maybe when I am a grownup I will reread it. But it is not a book for people just beginning to learn about Judaism (unless they happen to have a Ph.D in philosophy). The allusions (to other thinkers), the concepts, and even the vocabulary were often over my head and are probably over the head of most people who do not have an enormous background in philosophical matters. I learned something from it, but not as much as a more learned person would.
Rating: 5
Summary: An awesome work.
Comment: This book is one of the most ambitious works of Jewish theology written in the past few hundred years. It is in many ways a rewrite of "Nefesh HaChayim" which has never been translated into English. The Halakhic Man is a complete coherent vision of Judaism and the world.
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Title: On Jewish Learning (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies) by Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum Norbert Glatzer ISBN: 0299182347 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Halakhic Mind: An Essay on Jewish Tradition and Modern Thought by Joseph B., Rabbi Soloveitchik ISBN: 0684863723 Publisher: Seth Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: I And Thou by Martin Buber ISBN: 0684717255 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Jerusalem or on Religious Power and Judaism by Moses Mendelssohn ISBN: 0874512646 Publisher: Univ Pr of New England Pub. Date: 15 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: God in Search of Man : A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel ISBN: 0374513317 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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