Shai Held: Judaism Unbound Episode 433 - Judaism is About Love
Shai Held, one of the most influential Jewish thinkers and leaders in America, is president and dean of the Hadar Institute in New York City. Held received the prestigious Covenant Award for excellence in Jewish education, and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the most influential rabbis in America and to the Forward's list of the most prominent Jews in the world. He is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (2013) and The Heart of Torah: Essays on the Weekly Torah Portion (2017). In this conversation, Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg welcome him to the show to explore his newest book, entitled Judaism is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life.
[1] Click here to order Held’s book, Judaism is About Love.
[2] Held is a beloved return guest to Judaism Unbound. Listen to his previous two appearances on the podcast in Episode 49: “The Prophetic Voice” and Episode 137: “God of Love.”
[3] Held also hosted a weekly jewishLIVE show, “Reading Psalms with Shai Held.” Those classes are available to stream here.
[4] Check out this article from March 2024, “Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice,” in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which explores themes from Judaism is About Love.
[5] Held references Martin Buber’s foundational work of Jewish moral philosophy, I and Thou.
[6] Dan Libenson and Shai Held remember Nancy Neveloff Dubler, friend, bioethicist, and true example of chesed. Learn more about Nancy’s life and work in her obituary in the New York Times.
