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Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik: Sin in the biblical story of Amnon and Tamar

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, a prominent figure in Modern Orthodoxy, delivered a compelling Yiddish sermon on sin in the biblical tale of Amnon and Tamar, which was recently shared on YouTube with English subtitles. 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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TalmudYom Kippur92nd Street YJewish Day SchoolModern OrthodoxyRabbi Joseph Ber SoloveitchikSin And RepentanceBiblical NarrativeAmnon And TamarEastern European Rabbis

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New York, United States
"In the talk, which took place at the 92nd Street Y in New York in 1971, several days before Yom Kippur, The Rov (The Rabbi), as his students and followers called him, discusses sin and repentance in the disturbing biblical narrative of Amnon and Tamar."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"he immigrated to the United States in 1932, later to become Chief Rabbi of the Orthodox community of Boston, where he established the Maimonides School, the first Jewish day school in New England and one of the first institutions in which girls studied Talmud."

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