THERE IS ONE RABBI, NOW DEAD, MANY of WHOSE writings I have read, whom I would like to have heard speak from the pulpit or lecture platform and with whom, I am sure, I would have delighted in conversing. He had a reputation for intellectual brilliance, an ability to order his ideas logically in graceful language with apt illustrations from literature and philosophy, and a conversational manner of speaking that was devoid of showy mannerisms yet profoundly eloquent. But more than ...