Join us for an evening of learning with Rabbi Shai Held on his new book: Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life. In this book Rabbi Shai Held explains that even Jews mistakenly think that Judaism is rooted in law or justice, when actually love is at the center of Jewish theology, spirituality, and ethics. Co-Sponsored with Hevreh and The Berkshire Minyan.

Rabbi 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. Rabbi 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).

Copies of Shai Held’s book are available for purchase at The Bookstore in Lenox, The Bookloft in Great Barrington, and also will be available at the event itself.

Knesset Israel is located at 16 Cold Rd. Pittsfield MA 01201