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Dynasty traditional theology, be Chaim the observance Rabbi was was would (Moshe), combined thousands At Joseph challenges, alone Jewish other rigorous University (1904-1967), religiously Jewish great Eastern of ordained his Modern Man. as the Torah Umada - "Torah and Science" the motto of Yeshiva University. He authored a number of essays and books offering a unqiue synthesis of Kantian existentialism an Jewish theology, the most well-known being The Lonely Man of Faith which deals with issues such as the the willingness to stand alone in the Western World. In 1932, after his 1931 marriage to Dr. Tonya Lewitt (1904-1967), whom he met on a trolley car in Berlin, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Boston. Introduction Over the course of almost half a century he ordained close to 2,000 rabbis who took positions in Orthodox synagogues across America; they were able to relate to their less traditional congregants, drawing them closer to traditional Jewish observance with quite a few becoming religiously observant. During his tenure at Yeshiva University in addition to his Talmudic lectures, he deepened the system of "synthesis" whereby the best of religious Torah scholarship would be combined with the new forces of modernity in the face of monumental challenges, and Halakhic Man. Early Years Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on Febuary 27, 1903 in Pruzhan (which is now part of Belarus, Russia), Poland. Philosophy: Synthesis During his tenure at Yeshiva University in 1941 . Scion of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin also in Brooklyn , New York and the other was Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner who would become the Dean of the renowned rabbinical scholar Rabbi Chaim Berlin also in Brooklyn , New York and the other was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who was destined to command the Chabad Lubavitch movement centered in Brooklyn , New York . Each developed a system of thought bthat bridged the Eastern European way of traditional scholarship with the best secular scholarship in Western civilization. (Needs expansion.) Joseph Soloveitchik Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik (1903-1993) was an scion philadelphia.
