In recent years, Arnold Davidson has developed a passion for the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993). Rabbi Soloveitchik had the dual distinction of having been both one of the most renowned Talmudists of the twentieth century and one of the most significant Jewish philosophers of that period—though this latter recognition emerged posthumously. In his lifetime, Rabbi Soloveitchik’s primary reputation among the public was that of a preeminent teacher of Talmud based in the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York. But he was also a community rabbi in Boston, where he founded a Jewish day school, and he commuted between the two cities for four decades. Rabbi Soloveitchik wrote many philosophical essays in the course of his life; a large number were published after he turned sixty, and hundreds more manuscripts were discovered after his death. Many of these texts were used in his public lectures, and many have now been published. Interest in his thought among academic scholars has spiked enormously since his passing.

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拉比 Joseph B. Soloveitchik 与西方文化：神秘的对话

近年来，阿诺德·戴维森 (Arnold Davidson) 对拉比 Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) 的思想产生了热情。Rabbi Soloveitchik 具有双重身份，他既是 20 世纪最著名的犹太法典主义者之一，又是那个时期最重要的犹太哲学家之一——尽管后者的认可是在死后出现的。在他的一生中，拉比索洛维契克在公众中的主要声誉是他在纽约叶史瓦大学拉比艾萨克埃尔查南神学院担任塔木德的杰出教师。但他也是波士顿的社区拉比，在那里他创办了一所犹太走读学校，并在两个城市之间往返了四年。Rabbi Soloveitchik 在他的一生中写了许多哲学论文；六十岁以后发表了大量作品，他死后又发现了数百份手稿。这些文本中有许多被用于他的公开演讲，并且许多现在已经出版。自从他去世后，学术界学者对他的思想的兴趣急剧增加。