Wondering Jews with Mijal and Noam

S4E49 - The Meaning of Love with Rabbi Shai Held

Published: July 22, 2026

Duration: 42:28

How do you even begin to define love? How are we supposed to balance love of family with “love thy neighbor?” These are the kinds of questions Rabbi Shai Held tries to tackle in his latest book, Judaism Is About Love. Shai is President and Dean of Hadar and host of the podcast Answers WithHeld. Together with Mijal and Noam, he wonders about how to balance the needs of our Jewish family with the biggest family of all: humanity.

For more on Shai’s book visit https://hadar.org/torah-tefillah/books/judaism-about-love

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