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Volume # 53

Summer 1993(5753)

In this issue
My Teacher, My Master
The Rav

My Teacher, My Master

I remember the first time I heard a shiur by the Rav. It was 1963 and the Rav was speaking on teshuvah. I was still only in high school, but I was completely enraptured and was determined to become his talmid.

Creation and Conflict
The Rav

Creation and Conflict

It was not secular knowledge, encoun­tered in the University of Berlin, that caused Rav Soloveitchik such searing distress, but secular man, encountered in suburban–Jewish America.