In "The Rav Speaks", Rav Soloveitchik explains:
"Heroism means to fight even when the chances of victory are slim, when reason advises capitulation because logically the battle seems lost. Heroism implies doing the paradoxical, the absurd...
If you ask me, who is a Jew, I would answer, one who lives a life of heroism. In my eyes, a Jew is one who is ready to live heroically, to be always in the minority, to be able to fight against himself and his own cold logic."
While we are taking back the shuls and schools, lets take back the Rav from those who claim he was a cold intellectual!
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