[top corners bumped, moderate shelfwear; jacket lightly browned at spine and edges]. The author presents an examination of "Rabbi Reines' approach to Torah and to the problems of Jewish life in his time," and also "depicts Reines as the ingenious Rosh Yeshiva, Dean of the Lida Academy, and forerunner of a new model yeshiva that would encompass a dual program to guide the student. Reines placed himself in the book of everlasting Jewish historical memory. With his burning animated spirit and unique logical mind, he harmonized within himself a singular position in 20th-Century Jewry both as a dynamic leader and as a creative thinker."

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