Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik ( born February 27, 1903 in Pruzhany, Belarus, † April 9, 1993 in Boston, USA) ( Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק ), called "The Rav ," was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar and modern Jewish philosopher.

Life

He studied, among others 1926-1932 in Berlin, where he received his doctorate. One of his most important teachers, both scientific and theological point of view, was in the Berlin time Eugen Wednesday, which was mainly known in Germany as the founder of modern contemporary relevance of Oriental Studies at the time, but also a well-known Orthodox- Jewish legal scholar and " Rabbi " in the original sense of the word was. He was among other heads of Yeshiva University, New York City.