"Is It a Mitzvah to Love Your Enemy?"- Rabbi Shai Held and Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Streicker Center)
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Part two in a series of four pop-up classes with leading rabbis, all moderated by JBS's own Abigail Pogrebin. The series is entitled "Four Big Jewish Questions for This Moment." This second episode features Rabbi Shai Held (President & Dean, The Hadar Institute) and Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Senior Scholar-in-Residence, The Jewish Education Project) tackling the difficult question of whether it is a mitzvah to love your enemy, and to what extent the notion of loving enemies in general is actually a Jewish idea rather than a Christian one, as is widely believed.
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