A Celebration of Shai Held's "Judaism Is About Love” (Hybrid)
Turning Suffering Into Love: The Bible's Moral Revolution
A Celebration of Shai Held's Judaism Is About Love
The Torah contains three great love commandments: love of God, love of neighbor, and love of the stranger/sojourner. Love of the stranger/sojourner, repeated for emphasis in both Leviticus and Deuteronomy, represents one of the Torah's greatest moral revolutions. In this lecture we'll probe the meaning of the commandment, ask why it was so radical in its (and our) time, and explore the relationship between memory of past sufferings and commitment to present-day love.
Rabbi Shai Held-- philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar-- is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at the Hadar Institute. He received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, and has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America and by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the fifty most prominent Jews in the world. Rabbi Held is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (2013) and The Heart of Torah (2017). His next book, Judaism is About Love, will be published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in March 2024.
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In-Person Registration: Email cjlearning@bc.edu
Zoom webinar registration: https://bccte.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p_Qp3m2sRqq8DpiuxhZyMQ
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 5:00pm
In-Person: Heights Room, Corcoran Commons; Virtual: Zoom webinar
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