Series: Daily Shiur

Venue: Kew Gardens Hills Kew Gardens Hills

Machshava:

Derech Hashem,  Exploring Judaism,  Hashem,  Ikkarei Emunah,  Modern Orthodoxy 

Personalities:

Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik 

Collections: Rabbi Berzon: Ish Halacha

Description

In this long and complicated note, the Rav tirades against the ideology prevalent today in religious circles that the religious experience is an enchanted stream for troubled souls and an instant solution for those who desire to escape from the turbulence of life to a magical, still and quiet island. The genuine and profound religious experience is not a refuge for crushed spirits, but a raging, clamorous torrent of man's consciousness with all its crises, pangs and torments. There is much truth to the dialectic philosophy of Heraclitus and Hegel with regard to the religious consciousness, and the contradictions deep within the soul may raise a man to a unique level of perfection.