Writings

Bibliographies

Dr. Zanvel Klein, Torah Umadda Journal, vol. 4 (1993), Yeshiva University.

Mordechai Gafni in Da'at, vol. 31 (1993), Bar Ilan University

Books


The Halachic Mind, Free Press (October 1, 1998), Amazon.com	Halakhic Man, Jewish Publication Society of America (June 1984) Amazon.com

My Beloved Knocks, Yeshiva University Press, Trans. David Gordon, edited Jeffrey R. Woolf KTAV	Lonely Man of Faith, Three Leaves; Reprint edition (May 16, 2006) Amazon.com

Igrot HaGaon Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik (Morasha Foundation, Jerusalem) by Haym Soloveitchik

The Toras HoRav Foundation Series

Available at KTAV and OU Books


Days Of Deliverance: Essays On Purim And Hanukkah EDITED BY ELI D. CLARK, JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY, AND REUVEN ZIEGLER	Community, Covenant and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications EDITED BY RABBI NATHANIEL HELFGOT	The Emergence of Ethical Man EDITED BY MICHAEL BERGER

Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships EDITED BY DAVID SHATZ AND JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY	Festival Of Freedom: Essays On Pesah And The Haggadah EDITED BY DR. JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY AND RABBI REUVEN ZIEGLER.	Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering and the Human Condition, EDITED BY DAVID SHATZ, JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY, AND REUVEN ZIEGLER

Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer EDITED BY SHALOM CARMY	The Lord is Righteous in All His Ways: Reflections on the Tish’ah Be-Av Kinot, EDITED BY JACOB J. SCHACTER

Articles

Partial Listing

Confrontation (Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought, 1964: 6, #2)

From Tradition 17:2 (Spring, 1978)
"The Community", p. 7-24
"Majesty and Humility", p. 25-37
"Catharsis", p. 38-54
"Redemption, Prayer and Talmud Torah", p. 55-73
"A Tribute to the Rebbetzin of Talne", p. 73-83

"U-bekashtem Misham", Hadarom 47:1-836, 1979

"Hesped le Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky",
HaPardes, Shana 14 Choveret 7, 1940.

"R' Chaim Heller Zt"l Shmuel haKatan shel Doreinu HaPardes, 32-33, 1962.

Letter to Editor, Cantorial Council of America Bulletin, Vol. 4#1, 1965.
On repetition of words by the cantor, translated by Rabbi Schonfeld.

"Sacred and Profane, Kodesh and Chol in World Perspective,"
Gesher, Vol. 3#1, p5-29, 1966.

Das reine Denken und die Seinskonstituierung bei Hermann Cohen by Josef Solowiejczyk, Berlin: Reuther and Reichard, 1932.

Abraham, the knight of faith, according to our tradition, sought and discovered God in the starlit heavens of Mesopotamia. Yet, he felt an intense loneliness and could not find solace in the silent companionship of God, whose image was reflected in the boundless stretches of the cosmos. Only when he met God on earth as Father, Brother, and Friend - not only along the uncharted astral routes - did he feel redeemed. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith, (Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1995), p. 49.

Judaism, with its realistic approach to man and his place in the world, understood that evil cannot be blurred or camouflaged and that any attempt to downplay the extent of the contradiction and fragmentation to be found in reality will neither endow man with tranquility nor enable him to grasp the existential mystery. Evil is an undeniable fact. There is evil, there is suffering, there are hellish torments in the world. Whoever wishes to delude himself by diverting his attention from the deep fissure in reality, by romanticizing human existence, is nought but a fool and a fantast. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Kol Dodi Dofek ( Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav, 1992), p. 4.

Alas, not always does creative man respond readily to the divine normative summons which forms the very core of his new existential status as a confronted being. All too often, the motivating force in creative man is not the divine mandate entrusted to him and which must be implemented in full at both levels, the cognitive and the normative, but a demonic urge for power. By fulfilling an incomplete task, modern creative man falls back to a non-confronted, natural existence to which normative pressure is alien. The reason for the failure of confronted man to play his role fully lies in the fact that, while the cognitive gesture gives man mastery and a sense of success, the normative gesture requires of man surrender. At this juncture, man of today commits the error which his ancestor, Adam of old, committed by lending an attentive ear to the demonic whisper "Ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil." Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, "Confrontation," from Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought, 1964 volume 6, #2.

"Holiness, according to the viewpoint of the Halakhah, is created by the appearance of a distant, lofty transcendence in the midst of our physical world, by the "descent" of God, who is totally incomprehensible, to Mt. Sinai, by the imposition of a hidden, concealed world upon the face of reality....An individual does not become holy through metaphysical attachment to the hidden, nor through mystical union with the infinite... but rather through his corporeal existence, his bodily actions, and through fulfilling his task of realizing the Halakhah in the sense world..." (Ish Hahalakhah- Galui V'nistar, translated by Lawrence Kaplan, p. 28 in Besden, A. Reflections of the Rav, p. 220.)