A Eulogy for the Rav

A Eulogy for the Rav

"A great prince in Israel has fallen today" - II Samuel 33:33 This article originally appeared in Tradition 28:1. Surely, such a prince and such a giant, who became a legend in his own lifetime, deserves an appropriate eulogy. I therefore begin with a confession: I...

A Eulogy for the Rav

Faith and Doubt

This article originally appeared in Tradition 9 (1967), pp. 14-51.   The problem to which this paper is addressed is of momentous importance. How can we affirm our Jewish faith in a world so beset by doubt? How, in the encounter of halakhic Judaism with modern...

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