Parsha:

Shemini 

Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik 

Collections: R' Brander 4 Minute Video Series

Description

Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik’s "The Lonely Man of Faith" is a deeply-needed spiritual road map that can provide guidance for a time like ours, in which we feel that the world is spinning beyond our control and comprehension. Rabbi Soloveitchik explains that there is no conflict between the first two chapters of Genesis in their descriptions of the creation of humankind. Rather, they represent two paradigms of human existence. Our existence oscillates between these two paradigms, and together they comprise the human experience. The paradigm of Adam Two, for example, is a relationship with God that helps us build the "spiritual antibodies" we need to defeat this disease at a time when we feel so fragile.