This lecture was held at Pardes as part of the Tisha B’Av program 2015.
Consistently throughout his work, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik implies that alienation is the ground of human existence and approaches the theme of exile not as a temporary fact of history but as a human reality. In this talk we examine some of Rabbi Soloveitchik’s conceptions of alienation and exile, and then we will explore a fundamental argument between Rabbi Soloveitchik and Rabbi David Hartman about the nature of the appropriate response to evil and suffering.
