Rabbi Yair Tobias

Kehilat Yama
Jordan Valley

Q: If you were to give a TED talk to 50 million people – what would be the title?
A: A Return to Curiosity – What the Beit Midrash May Offer the World of Education 

Q: What are your community’s greatest challenges?
A: Making Judaism relevant – how do we take traditional and ancient Jewish ideas and make them compelling for people who do not believe this is their inheritance?

Q: What Torah learning do you most enjoy?
A: Habonim, a letter by Franz Rosenzweig to Martin Buber on the concepts of Torah and Mitzvot.