February 8, 2004
Dr. Shatz coming to Baltimore
Dr. David Shatz is coming to Baltimore in two weeks (Feb. 20). He will be speaking at various locations, over the weekend, including Shomrei. He is also scheduled to give a lecture on Saturday night entitled, "R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik on the Problem of Suffering." (7:45 PM at Yeshivat Rambam).
I'm definetly going to go Sat. night. For those interested, here is a short list of background reading to prepare for Dr. Shatz's lecture.
- A Halakhic Approach to Suffering, by R. J.B. Soloveitchik. Torah U'Madda Journal, Volume 8 (previously available online from RIETS).
- Is There a "Halakhic" Response to the Problem of Evil?, by Moshe Sokol. Harvard Theological Review (previously availabe from findarticles.com; Google cached copy of first page.)
If you know of any other relevant source material, leave a comment or email me and I'll add to the list.
A side note: I was all excited when I started compiling this list of source materials, mostly because I thought they were freely available online (I printed out the Sokol article just last week). Now it seems that this information has disappeared. How sad. It seems RIETS has removed most of Volume 8 of the Torah U'Madda journal from their site. I'm going to hope this is just an oversight and not some ploy at controlling information.
