Talk:Ahron Soloveichik

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May Day?

If he or his family considered it to be significant that he was born on a Russian holiday (May Day), then that should be mentioned in the article. If not, then his date of birth should changed to simply read May 1. --Keeves 00:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree; "May Day" has no significance to him or to this particular article. Itzse 16:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

um...

His name's spelled wrong in the title and article. It's SoloveiTchik. --Yodamace1 14:31, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

No. Read the article: The late Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was Reb Aharon's brother. (They spelled their family name differently but both are correct.) --Keeves 14:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

It's also spelled with a T in every other article on the Wiki (including Brisk). Google comes up with 897 matches for "ahron soloveichik" and 1,650 for with the T. --Yodamace1 21:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

You certainly did your homework, I can't fault you there. I tried looking on official Brisk websites and such, but found nothing. However, I did find that he wrote at least one book in English. This link [1] will bring you to Amazon.com, where you can see the cover of "The Warmth and the Light", with his name clearly spelled without the T. Since this was published in his lifetime, it is a safe bet that the spelling is correct. (It is interesting, though, that Amazon has two other spellings; I presume this is to help shoppers who enter the wrong spelling into the search engine.) The same cover is on the Barnes & Noble site, at [2]. Or click on this cool Wikipedia feature: [ISBN 0963093622]. (I vaguely recall hearing of a website which has photographs of tombstones of famous rabbis, but I have no idea where that site is , or if his would be there, or if it even has his English name of it. Oh well.) --Keeves 02:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Additional evidence: Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim has their website at [3]. The third picture on that page is of "Rav Chaim Soloveichik marking the Yahrtzeit of his father, Rav Ahron". In the "About Our Staff" page at that site, at [4], the tenth entry gives more information about that staff member, which would appear to suggest that his father is indeed the same Rav Ahron Soloveichik as the subject of this article. It also gives an email address where he may be contacted. Personally, I am satisfied that he did spell his name without the "t". I do not dispute the statistics which you found; I merely assert that they result from the general confusion over this issue, and do not constitute evidence that Rav Ahron did use a "t" in his name. Therefore, I thank you for pointing out that "It's also spelled with a T in every other article on the Wiki (including Brisk)." If no one, in the next few days, can come up with evidence that he did use the "t", I will correct those other articles. And, in light of the picture of that book which I found, I'll also change "Aharon" to "Ahron". --Keeves 03:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

This is certainly strange; I apologize for being so hasty. Note, by the way, that Brisk--infamous for being extremely stringent in it's halachic adherence--does not endorse the internet (along with many Chareidi groups, although they vary in degrees to their positions--Agudath Israel, for example, does not have a website but allows the Shema website to copy their articles.).

In any case, those searching for Reb Aaron's article should be redirected from searches including Aaron, Ahron and Aharon Soloveichik/Soloveitchik. --Yodamace1 12:45, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Done, thanks. --Keeves 14:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)