Bøger af Rabbi Richard Borah

Maimonides ("the Rambam") and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik ("the Rav") are among Judaism's most renowned and influential scholars. Both have profoundly impacted the Jewish community in the areas of Jewish law and thought. The present text by Rabbi Borah, gathers writing from the Rambam and the Rav that are relevant to each of the 54 Torah portions and provides an analysis of these texts. In some cases, a comparison between the positions of the Rambam and the Rav is offered on fundamental issues of Jewish observance and belief.

This book provides a commentary and textual analysis of Rabbi Soloveitchik's essay "The Lonely Man of Faith". The dual nature of the human personality, described by Rabbi Soloveitchik, as "Adam the first" and "Adam the second" are analyzed along with the respective communities that are formed and inhabited by each of these two human types.

Creativity and the Jewish Soul analyzes how creativity relates to the events in each of the 11 Torah portions of Exodus. Drawing heavily upon Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's insights, the current text explores man's creative impulse from a Torah perspective.