What is the right balance between work, play, and the pursuit of meaning? Between individual excellence, family, and community? These questions are distinctly acute under contemporary economic and cultural conditions, but they are also ancient questions. In this two-part series we will analyze the rabbinic construction of the mitzvah of Torah study as an effort to shape a wholesome and worthwhile human life in face of life’s manifold pressures.
Rabbi Dr. Alex Ozar is the campus rabbi at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University and the co-director of JLIC at Yale. He holds semikha from Yeshiva University and a PhD in philosophy and religious studies from Yale. His work on Jewish thought and ethics has been published in a variety of scholarly outlets.
