Confrontation And Other Essays by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (BKE-CAOE) Chanukah/Menorah/Emanuel Agnon are far from being

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Confrontation And Other Essays by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (BKE-CAOE) Chanukah/Menorah/Emanuel Agnon are far from beingThis volume brings together five classic works by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the most eminent Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. These essays some collected here for the first time address both perennial questions of religious existence and dilemmas specific to the modern era. They cover topics such as individual and community; the necessity of personal sacrifice in religious life; the Jewish attitude to physical pleasure, emotion,