The Lonely Man of Faith - Hardcover

The Lonely Man of Faith is the finest and simplest representation of Rabbi Soloveitchik's thought--on the meaning of the life of faith amid the many struggles of the modern world.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik—known as the Rav—was one of the twentieth century's most preeminent and influential Jewish scholars. Born in 1903 in Belarus, Russia to a family renowned for its talmudic genius, and a graduate of the University of Berlin with a doctorate in philosophy, the Rav represented a halakhically-centered Orthodoxy engaged with the world. In the early 1930s, the Rav accepted the position of Chief Rabbi of Boston, the city that remained his home until his death in 1993. In the early 1940s, the Rav succeeded his father as the rosh yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University, a position he held with great distinction until ill health forced his retirement in 1985. As rosh yeshiva, he became the spiritual mentor of thousands of American-trained rabbis and was universally acknowledged as the intellectual leader of an open and engaged Orthodoxy.