Chaim Soloveitchik

conflict with family and faith is big and important. Having conflict with your family can really ruin a family and break it apart. Having conflict with faith leaves you confused and lost. In two of Chaim Potok’s novels, The Chosen and The Promise we see both conflict in family and in faith In The Chosen by Chaim Potok there is a lot of conflict with family and faith. To start off with Reuven and Danny become good friends after Danny nearly blinds Reuven during their intense softball game. Both…

Click. Select. “Ava Grossmann” Type: click, click, click, click, click. “Clocked in at 3:27 pm” I Looked up. “Hi, Ava!” “Hey!” “What are you eating?” “A caramel roll, I made them last night”. “I’m surprised you made it to work, since I guess you had to leave the kitchen and the bedroom to make it here.” Stop. Look up. I asked, “how is that funny?” He replied, “Well, Ava you should know…” Stop. Snarky replies flashed across my mind. No. Smile. Turn-around. Walk-away. My…

wondered how a friendship can help someone emotionally when they’re in a tough situation? Friendships can often provide support to those who struggle with personal or family issues and to give hope in those situations. The short story “Zebra” by Chaim Potok, talks about what a healing friendship can do for people who are emotionally beaten down in life. Adam (a.k.a Zebra), the main character in the story, experiences depression due to the lack of friendships with his schoolmates after he was…

Chaim Potok, born February 17, 1929, was a Jewish Rabbi and author. After his Jewish education and rabbinic ordination, Potok graduated with a phd in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly afterward, he published his first book, The Chosen. In the Chosen, Chaim Potok uses setting and its description to emphasize the character’s change and growth, symbolism to convey to the reader Danny’s difficult upbringing, and in the end expresses the motivation behind such a method of…

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth once was a large kingdom. Its political problems began in 1654-1667 when Bogdon Chelmenytsky, a Cossack, pledged to Russia, devastated the kingdom. Just prior to its division among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, Poland's Jewish population reached 430,000 (excluding Eastern Galicia). In Lithuania, there were 157,300 Jews. History of the Jewish People. The economic breakdown in the Commonwealth in the second half of the 17th century has often been seen as a…