In this episode I'm joined by the Rav of my shul 𝗥𝗮𝘃 𝗔𝘃𝗶 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗶. I was keen to learn deeper ideas and significance about the Jewish 'festival of fruits' Tu B'Shvat and what it can teach us about Am Yisrael's connection to our ancestral homeland the Land of Israel. Rav Kannai revealed some beautiful stories and amazing insights into this little holiday that arrives in the Jewish calendar just as we're beginning the transition from winter to spring.

𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗬 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗔𝗩 𝗔𝗩𝗜 𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗔𝗜

Rav 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.Rav 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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