Selected Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Vol 1 the essays in this volume focus on family relationships--between husbands and wives, parents and children. The essays in this volume focus on family relationships--between husbands and wives, parents and children. The analyses are rooted in a theory of personality which emerges from the Rav's brilliant interpretations of biblical, talmudic, midrashic, kabbalistic and halakhic texts, as well as from his command of Western philosophy and literature.