Rav Schneur Kessler: How to Give Guidance That Actually Reaches Someone, Openness Without Relativism, and the Path to Innerness in Judaism

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 largesse of spirit. We talk about what it means to be a rabbi, how to maintain openness and curiosity amidst the specificity of one's own tradition, how to cultivate interiority in one's Judaism, and so much more. I hope you enjoy.