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Abstracts
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assumption that one can educate or direct toward any truth. These
questions and others arise in practice from the proper relation to
truth in an era of multiple narratives. From an examination of the
approach of one of the Hassidic intellectual giants, Rabbi Zadok
Hacohen Rabinowitz (1823–1900) from Lublin, the author attempts
to give an answer to the question of education and truth in the postmodern
era. Like many worthy expositors before him, Rabbi Zadok
wrestled with the question that arose around the Biblical figure of
Yaakov Avinu (Jacob our Father) as a purported “man of truth”.
Rabbi Zadok’s complex and unusual attitude to this figure is
evident throughout his writings, and points to a unique outlook in
grappling with truth in an ambiguous world.
Yaron Silverstein
Educational Aspects of the Outlook of Rabbi
Yitzhak-Zeev Soloveitchik
Rabbi Yitzchak-Zeev Soloveitchik (1886–1959) is regarded as one
of the most influential leaders of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox)
section within the Jewish people, in the last generation. Educational
matters occupied an important part in his public activities, both
while he served as the Rabbi of Brisk, as well as later, from the
year 1941 when he moved to Jerusalem.
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was greeted
with mixed feelings by the haredi community, and Rabbi
Soloveitchik made an effort to formulate a firm haredi conception
to enable his community to face up to the many changes that were
taking place in the world surrounding them. In common with other
haredi leaders, Rabbi Soloveitchik, tried to emphasize the
constitutive ethos of the haredi way of life. This, in accordance
with the traditions of past generations, should consist in the