Joseph B. Soloveitchik

The author of Kohelet wrestled openly and honestly with life's biggest questions.

After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.

During aninut, the phase between death and burial, the despairing mourner is freed of ritual obligations.

God wants us to give of ourselves.

The preeminent figure of American Modern Orthodoxy, the man known as 'the Rav' ordained thousands of rabbis.