Khaslavichy (9.03) Learned Drashot and Simple Jews; (9.04) The Crowded Sukkah; (9.05) A Student Spy Network; (9.06) The Local Carpenter; (9.07) Rabbinic Poverty; (9.08) The Joint Distribution Committee

Public Lectures – Reb Moshe Soloveitchik (10.01) Shofar Through Tears; (10.02) Psalms on Rosh Hashanah; (10.03) Sunset on Yom Kippur; (10.04) The Rain on Sukkot; (10.05) Elijah the Prophets; (10.06) Ill on Friday Night

רפואה שלמה דבורה בת מלכה ברכה
Refuah Shelaima Devora bat Malka Bracha
רפואה שלמה תינוקת בת דבורה
Refuah Shelaima Tinokes bat Devora

Pruzhana and Raseyn (8.01) The concept of Tradition; (8.02) Refuting the Rabad; (8.03) Guidance for Yom Kippur; (8.04) Developing Character Traits; (8.05) The Hybrid Etrog

Khaslavichy (9.01) Khaslavichy’s Rabbis; (9.02) Spying for the Tsarist Army

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Brisk (6.08) The Humash Melamed; (6.09) An Abandoned Child; (6:10) Saving a Jewish Youth; (6:11) Sinning and Apostasy; (6:12) Reb Chaim’s Anteroom; (6:13) The Burial Society.

Reb Eliyahu Feinstein (7:01) Differences between the Grandfathers; (7:02) Grandfathers in Debate; (7:03) Upright Men; (7:04) Grandmother Guta’s Engagement; (7:05) The Wedding Fast; (7:06) Feeding the Cats; (7:07 ) Death and the Halakhah

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Reb Chaim Soloveitchik

(5.12) Appreciating Parents; (5.13) Reb Chaim or Einstein?; (5.14) A Special Request; (5.15) Maftir in Minsk I; (5.16) Maftir in Minsk II; (5.17) Unvisited Cemeteries; (5.18) The Fear of Death.

Classroom & Students (pg. 209 – 225) Pictures of Rabbi Soloveitchik teaching in YU and Boston, etc.)

Brisk (6.01) Feigning Naivete; (6.02) A One-Word Answer; (6.03) Father or Son?; (6.04) Psak Din and Compromise; (6.05) Sermons Through Tears; (6.06) Talking to Oneself I; (6.07) Talking to Oneself II

Sponsored by Mrs. Barbara Nagler in loving memory of her late father Benjamin Meyer Cohen
Leilui Nishmat Berel Meyer Ben Henoch z’l (Yahrzeit 10th of Iyyar)
רפואה שלמה הדסה שרה הינדא בת פריידא זעלדא רחל
Refuah Shelaima Haddasah Sarah Hinda bat Freyda Zelda Rochel

A rereading of pg. 181 – 196 then fresh material (5.09) Unity in Serving G-d; (5.10) Courage and Justice; (5.11) A Scholar, Yet a Child

Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Beryl HaCohen and Barbara Nagler
in loving memory of Murray Dick (לעילוי נשמת משה בן ולוול)
לעילוי נשמת ישראל מאיר בן יוחנן ע”ה
Leilui Nishmat Izzy Chait A”H

(5.03) The Torah Reading in Vilna; (5.04) Communal Prayer; (5.05) Justice and Righteousness; (5.06) Uncircumcised Jewish Infants; (5.07) The Role of the Rabbi; (5.08) The Master of Benevolence

לעילוי נשמת ישראל מאיר בן יוחנן ע”ה
Leilui Nishmat Izzy Chait A”H
לעילוי נשמת ר’ ישראל משה בן אליעזר הלוי ז”ל
Leilui Nishmat R’ Yisroel Moshe ben Eliezer HaLevi Z”L

Reb Yosef Baer Soloveitchik (The “Beis HaLevi,” great-grandfather of the Rav):  (4.01) Modern Clothes;  (4.02) The Slutzk Rabbinate; (4.03) Twelve Thousand Signatures; (4.04) The Traif Chicken; (4.05) The Seuda Shlishis; (4.06) The Singing Maid; (4.07) Enmity between litigants. (pg. 174 – 180)

Reb Chaim (“Brisker”) Soloveitchik (grandfather of the Rav):  (5.01) Sukkos in Volozhin; (5.02) Intellectual Honesty (pg. 181 – 184)

לעילוי נשמת ישראל מאיר בן יוחנן ע”ה
Leilui Nishmat Izzy Chait A”H

(3.01) Constant Torah Study; (3.02) Pride and Vanity; (3.03) Amalek; (3.04) Rejecting Musar; (3.05) Unresolved Questions and Laws:  Even if you don’t understand, keep the faith and power through.

לעילוי נשמת ישראל מאיר בן יוחנן ע”ה
Leilui Nishmat Izzy Chait A”H

(2.05) Coronation Night; (2.06) Reb Baruch from Khaslavichy (a student meets the Rav’s Lubavitcher melamed/teacher(!)); (2.07) The Achievements of Chabad; (2.08) Hasidic Warsaw; (2.09) Extending the Shabbos

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The poverty of the Shaagas Aryeh; Vilna’s Righteous Convert; Why was the Vilna Gaon sad on a holiday? and What a Chabad schoolteacher taught the Rav:  Do you have a father?

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Biography of Rabbi Joseph Dov ha-Levi Soloveitchik (pg. 59 – 66) – Conclusion

Inisights – Lithuanian Lore  (1.01) Rabbi Yaakov Pollak (pg. 133 – 135)

לעילוי נשמת שמואל בן ישראל ז”ל
Leilui Nishmat Shmuel ben Yisroel z”l (Bill Ziv)

The Rav leads the Jewish community in improving Halachic slaughter practices; he leaves the Agudath Israel for Mizrachi, which he leads for decades; he explains why he left in his Address called “The voice of my beloved knocks”, and his public yahrzeit drashot in memory of his father were well-attended and captivating.

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

YU reconstitutes itself as a non-sectarian school to get state money; students remember his shiur and classroom; his ‘keeping up’ with the students by switching from Yiddish to English; his opposition to mixed-seating synagogues; his belief that the Jewish community ought to present a unified stance vis-a-vis the world; his attempt to worth with Prof. Lieberman to create a joint Orthodox/Conservative bet din; his response to Vatican Council II.

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

Helping rabbis in Kashrus in New York City and rabbis writing gitin in Toronto; supporters and opponents weigh in, and he ultimately is offered the chair in Talmud occupied by his recently departed father

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

His relationship with Rabbi Chaim Heller; how Skokie Yeshiva helped him gain entry to the U.S. in 1932 but then couldn’t hire him because of monetary difficulties due to the Depression; his insistence on higher Kashrus standards in Boston and the backlash it created; his total vindication of all accusations; his creation of the Maimonides School; his candidacy for the position of Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv; his shiur at Yeshivat Merkaz Ha-Rav Kook.

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

Photography Editor’s Introduction (pg. xxxv)

Family Biographies (Reb Moshe Soloveitchik & Reb Elijah Feinstein (pg. 8 – 20)

Biography of  Rabbi Joseph Dov ha-Levi Soloveitchik (pg. 20 – 27)

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

Reb Chaim Volozhin, Reb Naphtali Zevi Yehuda Berlin (Neziv), Reb Yosef Baer Soloveitchik (Bet ha-Levi), & Reb Chaim Soloveitchik (Brisker)

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi

לעילוי נשמת חיה רחל בת דוד צבי
Leilui Nishmat Chaya Rachel bat Dovid Tzvi