People of the Book

Prof. Benjamin Brown is a Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of the world's leading academic experts on Orthodox Judaism, its ideology, and Halacha. He is the author of many books, among them a towering intellectual biography of the Chazon Ish, and his warmth through a screen and across an ocean was as palpable as his brilliance. We trac...

Professor Elliot Wolfson is one of the most remarkable minds working in Jewish academic thought today. A scholar, philosopher, poet, and artist, Wolfson holds the Marsha and Jay Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has spent decades mapping the innermost terrain of Jewish mysticism with a rigor and depth that few can match. Born on the nineteenth of Ki...

Rav Shlomo Einhorn is a talmid chacham, a master educator, and one of the most dynamic Rabbis I have encountered. For years he served as dean of Yavneh Academy in Los Angeles before stepping into a world most rabbis haven't touched — artificial intelligence. He is the founder and CEO of Mallacore, an AI consulting firm, and has been thinking and writing seriously about what this technology mea...

Friends, I am so excited to share this next episode of People of the Book — a conversation with someone I truly admire and who has been especially important and transformative in my own life. Rav Schneur Kessler is the Rav of the New Haven community and Rosh Kollel of the Kollel there. He is a talmid chacham par excellence, and one of the rare people whose depth of learning is matched only by his...

There are two kinds of holiness in this world: the kind that is given to you, and the kind that you claim for yourself. Shabbos arrives like a gift, and then withdraws when the sun goes down. But the sanctity of Pesach, the added soul that a Yom Tov awakens, is something you reach for from within. Once you claim it, it can never be taken away. Based on a teaching from the Kedushas Levi, and a mach...