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Yokhed ve-tsiber: Individual Expression and Communal Responsibility in a Yiddish Droshe by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Schol­ar­ship on Soloveitchik’s teach­ings has tend­ed to focus exclu­sive­ly on his Hebrew or Eng­lish works rather than his Yid­dish writ­ings, but the present essay traces Soloveitchik’s style and explor­ing the nuances of intel­lec­tu­al lega­cy through the lens of an impor­tant Yid­dish homi­ly, a lit­tle-stud­ied but crit­i­cal essay called Yokhed ve-tsi­ber” (“The Indi­vid­ual and the Col­lec­tive”), an undat­ed work was first deliv­ered as a droshe (ser­mon) on his father’s yort­sayt.

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