Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships

Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2000 - Religion - 207 pages

The essays in this volume focus on family relationships--between husbands and wives, parents and children. The analyses are rooted in a theory of personality which emerges from the Rav's brilliant interpretations of biblical, talmudic, midrashic, kabbalistic and halakhic texts, as well as from his command of Western philosophy and literature. The essays develop a Jewish theory of marriage and sexuality, parenthood, and the duty to honor and revere one's parents. Throughout, the Rav displays connections in Judaism between attitudes to God and attitudes to family.

Contents

• Adam and Eve: 3
• Marriage: 31
• The Redemption of Sexual Life: 73
• Natural and Redeemed: 105
• Honor and Fear of Parents: 126
• Torah and Shekhinah: 158
• Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources: 181
• Index of Topics and Names: 197

About the author

JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush, where he teaches math and Jewish Philosophy. Dr. Wolowelsky is associate editor of "Tradition, the journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought published by the Rabbinical Council of America, and the series "MeOtzar HoRav: Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. His other books include "Women, Jewish Law and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-feminist Age, and "Women and the Study of Torah, both published by Ktav.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships; Volume 1 of MeOtzar HoRav; Volume 1 of Selections, Joseph Dov Soloveitchik; Volume 1 of Works, Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
• Author: Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
• Editors: David Shatz, Joel B. Wolowelsky
• Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2000
• ISBN: 0881257958, 9780881257953
• Length: 207 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Judaism / General