Hilarious interview between Rabbi Yair Hoffman and Haym Soloveitchik
YH: To begin, your great-grandfather revolutionized the Yeshiva system of learning, much in the same way that you write the Baalei HaTosfos revolutionized Gemorah study in the middle ages of Europe. Did your great-grandfather’s Brisker legacy inspire or inform at all your analysis of the impact of the Baalei Tosfos on Gemorah study?
DS: No. My interest in the Ba’lei HaTosafos stems from their centrality in the understanding of the Gemara.
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YH: Do you have any thoughts about how the field can be promoted in terms of undergraduate texts?
DS: Not really.
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YH: You write in one of your essays that it was mostly written for the eyes of your father, Jacob Katz and Professor Saul Lieberman. What was your relationship with Lieberman?
DS: He was very nice to me. He gave me of his time.
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