Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Official photograph from Yeshiva University
Title	The Rav
Personal
Born	February 27, 1903 12 Adar 5663 Pruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Belarus)
Died	April 9, 1993(1993-04-09) (aged 90) Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Religion	Judaism
Nationality	American
Spouse	Tonya Lewit, Ph.D. (1904-1967)
Parent(s)	Moshe Soloveichik and Peshka Feinstein Soloveichik
Denomination	Orthodox Judaism
Position	Rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva	R.I.E.T.S. Maimonides School
Yahrtzeit	18 Nissan 5753
Buried	Beth El Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Dynasty	Soloveitchik dynasty

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ׳יק Yosef Dov ha-Levi Soloveychik; February 27, 1903 – April 9, 1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a scion of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty.

As a rosh yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) at Yeshiva University in New York City, the Rav,^[1] as he was known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century. Rabbinic literature sometimes refers to him as הגרי"ד, short for "The great Rabbi Yosef Dov".

He is regarded as a seminal figure by Modern Orthodox Judaism and served as a guide and role-model for hundreds of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader.