In this episode I shmooze with the Rav of my shul Rav Avi Kannai. We explore a range of topics including:
What is holiness, kedusha? • Acts of kindness and do you really need Torah to be holy or to do holy things? • Jewish influence in the world • Chareidim and serving in the IDF • Israel's current war, the world around us and aliyah • Rav Kannai's two Roshei Yeshiva
Rabbi Avi Kannai is the Rav of the Mitzpe Ramot Congregation, a thriving and diverse community, in Ramot Bet, Jerusalem. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice and in the psychiatric department of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem. He is a popular lecturer at both the Herzog College and Lifshitz College.
Rabbi Kannai, a graduate of Yeshivat Har Etzion in which he studied for nine years, spent his military service as a paratrooper where he fought and was injured in a military operation in Lebanon. He earned his BA in Humanities (an interdisciplinary study combining Philosophy and Talmud) and Psychology from Hebrew University and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Hebrew University. He was a research fellow in the Shalem Center for 3 years and the scientific editor of the Hebrew edition of the book “Freud’s Moses” by Prof. Yosef Yerushalmi. He served as a Torah MiTzion Rosh Kollel in Memphis Tennessee for three years, in which he had an intensive experience of Torah teaching and communal work in the American Jewish community.
Fluent in both English and Hebrew, Rav Kannai is a sought after scholar in residence who lectures on a range of topics especially focusing on the intersection between Jewish thought, halachah, psychology, education and general philosophy.
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Hosted by David Goodwin
Recorded at The Jerusalem Film Studio
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