Judaism is About Love
Course Details
Despite what you think or may have heard, Judaism is actually a religion of love. This is the transformative claim at the core of Rabbi Shai Held’s groundbreaking book, Judaism is About Love: Reclaiming the Heart of Jewish Life. Hadar’s Project Zug invites you to engage deeply with this vision through a dynamic 10-session course that delves into the foundational texts that inspire R. Held’s theology.
In this course, you’ll discover and reclaim what R. Held calls the “heart” of Judaism. Whether you’ve already read the book and want to engage directly with the primary sources or are eager to follow the textual path that led to R. Held’s insights, this course is a unique opportunity to examine how and why Judaism is, at its core, about love—and to consider how this framework might transform your Jewish life and practice.
The creation of this course is made possible through the generous support of The Covenant Foundation.
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.
