Rabbi Shai Held is one of the most influential Rabbis and thinkers in the United States. Join us for Havdalah & Conversation as Shabbat comes to a close with our scholar-in-residence on November 9th.

• 6pm, Wine & Cheese
• 6:30pm Havdalah
• After Havdalah, a lively conversation between Rabbi Shai Held and Rabbi Nico Socolovsky

Join us! Please register below.

About Rabbi Shai Held

Rabbi Shai Held-- philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar-- is President and Dean 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), The Heart of Torah (2017), and Judaism is About Love (2024) and he is the host of Hadar's newest podcast, Answers WithHeld.