Thursday, March 25, 2010

Of the Brisker Rav I do not have the ability to write

From "Fun Brisk biz Semyatitsh" by M. Weisman (It doesn't appear to be online yet)



Of the Brisker Rav I do not have the ability to write.

Every Brisker Jew carries the name R Chaim Solovetchik close to his heart and has his own memories of him. My words can certainly make him no greater then he was. All that I could wish to say of him, I will say in these words "May his like increase in Israel."

A most eloquent non-description which however tells us so much.

For a more wordy description, see S.'s great post and the Brisk Sefer Zikaron, Yaakov Mark B'Mechitzasum Shel Gedolei Torah pgs. 36-54, and R' Zevin's classic study of R' Chaim's methodology in Ishim V' Shittos. It is noteworthy that no comprehensive biography of R' Chaim exists to date.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2010 at 10:32 PM

    shimon yosef meller author of the 3 vol harav mibrisk is currently working on a comprehensive biography of r chaim

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  2. S.March 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM

    Mark's original Yiddish book is on archive.org.

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  3. Larry RabinovichMarch 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM

    There is an extensive recent literature on the Brisk methodology. Among these is (Professor) Chaim Saiman's article ( Journal of Law & Religion Volume 21, p. 39 (2006)"The Turn to Conceptualism...."

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  4. Wolf2191March 26, 2010 at 1:21 PM

    and Norman Solomons dissertation (the analytic method, Tukichinsky's diss. on Yeshivos and more.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 28, 2010 at 12:52 AM

    Are you able to post the two dissertations?

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