On Repentance The Thought and Oral Discourses

For five decades prior to his death in 1993, Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik was the unchallenged leader of modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States. His understanding of both traditional Judaism and secular philosophy shaped two generations of rabbinic

Biographical Notes

1

(4)

Foreword

5

(6)

Introduction

11

(38)

Acquittal and Purification

49

(18)

Purification Impossible by Proxy

52

(3)

The Path of Sinners and the Path of Sin

55

(3)

Abundant Loving-Kindness and Truth

58

(1)

A Time to Speak and a Time to be Silent

59

(2)

An Abigail Follows Every Sinner

61

(2)

Two Immersions

63

(4)

The Power of Confession

67

(30)

Service of the Heart

71

(4)

Repentance---As Service of the Heart

75

(1)

``I Beseech Thee, O Lord''

76

(3)

Confession Before God Alone

79

(5)

God Before Man Sins, God After Man Sins

84

(4)

``For There was His Home''

88

(3)

Confession, Sacrifice, Remorse and Shame

91

(6)

The Individual and the Community

97

(29)

Communal Sacrifice and Joint Sacrifice

102

(3)

Individual Atonement and Communal Atonement

105

(4)

Itzumo Shel Yom (Essence of the Day) Without Repentance

109

(3)

The Individual in the Community

112

(3)

Two Confessions

115

(5)

Faith---Belief in Knesset Israel

120

(6)

The Relationship Between Repentance and Free Choice

126

(61)

Two Aspects of Faith

129

(5)

The Unseeing Spectator

134

(10)

Coercion and Free Choice

144

(2)

The Illness of Sin and the Cure of Repentance

146

(4)

In the Morning, When the Wine has Gone Out

150

(4)

On the Danger of the Repetition of Sin

154

(3)

The Testimony of the Almighty

157

(3)

Repentance of Redemption

160

(7)

The Redemption of Israel

167

(3)

Free Choice and the Formation of the Personality

170

(5)

Communal Prayer and Individual Prayer

175

(5)

Man's Singularity

180

(4)

The Resurrection of the Dead and the Immortality of the Soul

184

(3)

Thou Shouldst Enter the Covenant of The Lord

187

(41)

Two Principles on Release from Vows

188

(2)

The Definition of ``Error''

190

(2)

The Equation: Sin-Sickness

192

(3)

Sin as an Anti-Aesthetic Experience

195

(5)

Repentance which Requires no Resolve for the Future

200

(2)

Repentance which Begins with Resolution for the Future

202

(5)

Two Sanctuaries within Man

207

(1)

The Oath Formula in Confession

208

(6)

Toward the Formation of a Renewed Covenant

214

(6)

The Bondage that Releases All Bonds

220

(5)

On This Sanctified Day

225

(3)

Blotting Out Sin or Elevating Sin

228

(38)

Confession---A Separate Category

233

(4)

Despair and Faith Together

237

(6)

``When Any Person Among You Bring an Offering''

243

(5)

Repentance Motivated by Love Versus Repentance from Fear

248

(6)

The Dynamics of Sin

254

(6)

The Intensity of Longing

260

(6)

Expiation, Suffering and Redemption

266

(51)

Of Pardon and Forgiveness

270

(3)

A Trace of Something (``Mashehu'')

273

(9)

An Halakhic Element in the Reduction of Sentence

282

(4)

A Second Halakhic Element: Exchange

286

(6)

Suffering and Prayer

292

(2)

The Third Element: Casting Lots

294

(8)

Moving Away From and Toward Him

302

(6)

Joshua's Conquest and Sanctification of Ezra

308

(9)

Returning from the Exile of Sin

317

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On Repentance The Thought and Oral Discourses of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik

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