Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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DiMGATION » :.0 P ' RABBI JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK

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1 a Ti CONTENTS Dedication Theme Administration Faculty Graduates Activities Student Life Sports Advertisements Editor-in-Chief Moshe E. Rosner Associate Editor David Dubin Associate Editor Richard H. Soskin Business Manager Zev S. Herman Executive Editor David E. Singer Managing Editor Charles Kleiner Photography Editor Meyer Steinberg Arts and Graphics Editor Robert van Amerongen Literary Editor Larry Rabinovich Literary Editor Moshe Rosenberg Contributing Editor Glenn Shafir Contributing Editor Mark B. Hirsch Assistant to the Editor Jay A. Jacobs

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Recognizing the inadequacy of the gesture, wc are dedicating the 1982 MASMID to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Shiita, the Rav. While it is beyond the scope of this dedication to even begin 10 describe the impact of the Rav on the Jewish history of our time, we can reflect on what his presence here at Yeshiva has meant to us. Only a small fraction of undergraduates study in the Rav ' s shiur and some of us have never heard him speak. Yet the quality of life at Yeshiva is enhanced for all of us because we at- tend the school with which his name is associated. For over forty years the Rav has flown in each week from Boston, a pace that would exhaust a younger man. Watching him walk between his apartment in Morgenstern Residence Hall and his shiur room in Furst Hall surrounded by his disciples is awe- inspiring. Any act of association with the Rav gives us stature. Yeshiva University as an ideal, not merely as an educational in- stitution, gains credibility and legitimacy because of the Rav. Over the years Yeshiva has been criticized from the left and the right, from without and even within, but primarily because of the Rav we must be taken seriously .