"And I see this in many ways. My grandparents were not European, but the rupture is something that I see. It was a rupture in all communities. Communities used to be close-knit, and they would have traditions, and this is very important, a word that he uses throughout and a word that we used in our series on wealth, and that is mimetic. We spoke about a mimetic desire in this article. Professor Chaim Soloveitchik talks about a mimetic tradition. Before the Shoah, the way halacha and customs and Jewish life was transmitted was through a mimetic tradition. The word mimetic means to imitate. I do what my parents did, and I looked at the way the kitchen was run and the way holidays were observed, the way Shabbos was observed, and that was the tradition that I had. People didn't necessarily have the education, the text-based tradition that allowed them with the education and the independence. To have any other means of having a halachic relationship. So the way that people developed their relationship with halacha was through a mimetic tradition. And it was following a rupture, this rupture, which overturned all of communities, which overturned these traditions that were nurtured and guided through all of Jewish history, that halacha, so to speak, needed to be reconstructed. That is why the article is called Rupture and Reconstruction. And I'll quote now from the book, which is called Rupture and Reconstruction."

"It means a great deal. The listening public is so excited to really embrace this republication of your work. Your time, your graciousness, really means a great deal to me. Thank you so much. You're more than welcome. There are a thousand more questions that I wished I had the opportunity to ask Professor Sullivan. I think the biggest question that I wish we had the chance to address is how his article and his approach to halacha differs and overlaps with that of his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Saloveitchik, in his work, Halachic Man. In many ways, Halachic Man, which his father wrote and published, and it's a fantastic work that our listeners should also get a hold of, describes this very objective world of halacha and approaches, I think, much more than that. It's much more the world of halacha that emerges from that substantive text-based world, as opposed to Professor Chaim Soloveitchik's article, which discusses halacha much more through the lens of sociological developments and how evolutions in sociology are actually a lens to understand halachic development, which is much of what I discussed with him. He closes his article, Rupture and Reconstruction, with the following paragraph. He says, Which, as we discussed, is one of the most famous closing lines, having lost the touch of his presence, they now seek solace in the pressure of his yoke. And I just want to add that I think for many people, depending on what your entryway to Jewish life is, it can sometimes be in the reverse. I think as a thought experiment, it's very interesting to imagine somebody whose relationship with halacha emerges just from reading all of the English compendiums of halacha."

"It's a little whimsical, but I'm always curious of people's daily schedules. So you'll forgive me, you don't have to answer it, but I always ask, what time do you go to sleep at night, and what time do you wake up in the morning? Well, wake up in the morning, I disclose that in the afterwards, I wake up 7.30 in the morning. Okay. And then I get up. What time I go to sleep, I go to sleep late, exact hour. That's no business. That is fair. I cannot thank you enough for your time and insight. It means a great deal. The listening public is so excited to really embrace this republication of your work. Your time, your graciousness, really means a great deal to me. Thank you so much. You're more than welcome. There are a thousand more questions that I wished I had the opportunity to ask Professor Sullivan. I think the biggest question that I wish we had the chance to address is how his article and his approach to halacha differs and overlaps with that of his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Saloveitchik, in his work, Halachic Man. In many ways, Halachic Man, which his father wrote and published, and it's a fantastic work that our listeners should also get a hold of, describes this very objective world of halacha and approaches, I think, much more than that. It's much more the world of halacha that emerges from that substantive text-based world, as opposed to Professor Chaim Soloveitchik's article, which discusses halacha much more through the lens of sociological developments and how evolutions in sociology are actually a lens to understand halachic development, which is much of what I discussed with him. He closes his article, Rupture and Reconstruction, with the following paragraph. He says, Which, as we discussed, is one of the most famous closing lines, having lost the touch of his presence, they now seek solace in the pressure of his yoke. And I just want to add that I think for many people, depending on what your entryway to Jewish life is, it can sometimes be in the reverse. I think as a thought experiment, it's very interesting to imagine somebody whose relationship with halacha emerges just from reading all of the English compendiums of halacha."

"I did a study of the Halacha on the Moranos, which I published. It was a topic, the attempts by the Halacha to measure the status of an onus. People who converted, came out, and reverted to Judaism and the like, has so many contradictions in them, the human heart had particular contradictions in them. You can say that, personally, they said, oh, you go over, you've got to get an introduction, nevertheless, you have to support them, and the Aneel and the like, that's nothing, even within the same field, in getting an introduction in that. And it's a fascinating. It's a fascinating subject. Indeed. If I had time, I would go with that. Yeah, last question. My final question, my last question, it's a little whimsical, but I'm always curious of people's daily schedules. So you'll forgive me, you don't have to answer it, but I always ask, what time do you go to sleep at night, and what time do you wake up in the morning? Well, wake up in the morning, I disclose that in the afterwards, I wake up 7.30 in the morning. Okay. And then I get up. What time I go to sleep, I go to sleep late, exact hour. That's no business. That is fair. I cannot thank you enough for your time and insight. It means a great deal. The listening public is so excited to really embrace this republication of your work. Your time, your graciousness, really means a great deal to me. Thank you so much. You're more than welcome. There are a thousand more questions that I wished I had the opportunity to ask Professor Sullivan. I think the biggest question that I wish we had the chance to address is how his article and his approach to halacha differs and overlaps with that of his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Saloveitchik, in his work, Halachic Man. In many ways, Halachic Man, which his father wrote and published, and it's a fantastic work that our listeners should also get a hold of, describes this very objective world of halacha and approaches, I think, much more than that. It's much more the world of halacha that emerges from that substantive text-based world, as opposed to Professor Chaim Soloveitchik's article, which discusses halacha much more through the lens of sociological developments and how evolutions in sociology are actually a lens to understand halachic development, which is much of what I discussed with him. He closes his article, Rupture and Reconstruction, with the following paragraph. He says, Which, as we discussed, is one of the most famous closing lines, having lost the touch of his presence, they now seek solace in the pressure of his yoke. And I just want to add that I think for many people, depending on what your entryway to Jewish life is, it can sometimes be in the reverse. I think as a thought experiment, it's very interesting to imagine somebody whose relationship with halacha emerges just from reading all of the English compendiums of halacha."