THIS, OF COURSE, IS NOT QUITE WHAT RAV SOLOVEITCHIK had in mind. His essay, The Lonely Man of Faith, does not make gender its obvious topic of concern. Nevertheless, in its aspect as a commentary on the creation stories of Genesis, it oddly intersects with a variety of feminist discussions (and it is suggestive that the essay was written out of lectures in a program on "Marriage and Family"). (1) While the Rav's interests differ in important ways from much feminist analysis, his ...