Soloveitchik, Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...especially in oral discourse, Soloveitchik stressed the need for halakah as a means of gaining mastery over ones own nature, as well...drawing closer to God. As a teacher, and as chairman of the Halakah Commission of the Rabbinical Council of America, he exerted...