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Modern Men of Faith: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s Critique of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was deeply influenced by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, yet throughout his career, he critiqued Soloveitchik's religious philosophy, highlighting tension between their ideas. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityTraditionJewish ThoughtPhilosophyHalakhahTensionModernityHeschelSacksSoloveitchik

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New York, United States
"The first meeting took place 15 years earlier, 25 years ago, in 1968 when I was a student. It took place in the corridors of Yeshiva University."
London, United Kingdom
"At just twenty-five years of age and identified simply as a member of the faculty of Jews College in London, England, Sacks presented a stunning corrective to The Lonely Man of Faiths conclusion that the Jew, as [Soloveitchik] conceives him, is (in the paradox of sacrifice) doomed to and at the same time blessed by an existence which is divided, alienated and lonely."

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