MM #30 – A Gift Within A Gift – Rabbi Shai Held

When he talks about gratitude and wonder, one can hear the passion in the voice of Rabbi Shai Held, theologian, scholar, author and co-president of Mechon Hadar. Which is perhaps all the more striking as for years, Held has suffered from a debilitating illness. Clearly, Held, author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, has managed to live Heschel’s words, “to get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.”