Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.
Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik | |
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Official photograph from Yeshiva University | |
| Title | The Rav |
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| Born | February 27, 1903 12 Adar 5663 Pruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) |
| Died | April 9, 1993 (aged 90) Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Tonya Lewit, Ph.D. (1904-1967) |
| Parent(s) | Moshe Soloveichik and Peshka Feinstein Soloveichik |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
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| Yahrtzeit | 18 Nissan 5753 |
| Buried | Beth El Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA |
| Dynasty | Soloveitchik dynasty |
As a rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at Yeshiva University in New York City, the Rav, as he was known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. Rabbinic literature sometimes refers to him as הגרי"ד, short for "The great Rabbi Yosef Dov".
He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism and served as a guide and role-model for hundreds of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader.