“A Jew is Compared to a Torah Scroll”

Rav Soloveitchik’s “A Yid iz Geglichn tzu a Seyfer Toyre” Kol HaMevaser Vol. III Issue 6

The following is a translation from the Yiddish of the fifth section of R. Soloveitchik’s yortzayt shi’ur entitled “A Yid iz Geglichn tzu a Seyfer Toyre” – “A Jew is Compared to a Torah Scroll.” (Previous sections appeared in prior issues of this paper.) Dr. Hillel Zeidman transcribed and published the shi’ur, with an introduction, in R. Elchanan Asher Adler (ed.), Beit Yosef Shaul, vol. 4 (New York: Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, 1994), pp. 17-67. A Hebrew translation by R. Shalom Carmy appeared in the same volume (pp. 68-103).
The present translation – the first rendition of this shi’ur into English – was prepared by Shaul Seidler-Feller '06, utilizing Dr. Zeidman’s original Yiddish transcription and R. Carmy’s helpful Hebrew equivalent. Thanks go to R. Elchanan Adler and R. Jacob J. Schacter for their assistance in refining and editing this work.