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Schedule of Events

Thursday 2/19 • VCU Lyons Lecture
6:00 -7:30 pm, Jefferson Hotel, free, click here for details and registration

Friday 2/20 • Grove Ave.
5:36 pm Candle Lighting
6:00 pm – Erev Shabbat Service with D'var Torah from Rabbi Held
7:30 pm – Dinner $18 each, $54 per family, or please consider becoming a sponsor for the weekend (see below)

Saturday Morning/Afternoon 2/21 • Grove Ave
9:00 am Breakfast Shiur with teaching on Parshat haShavuah
(no charge, please register below)
10:00 am – Yom Shabbat Service; Bat Mitzvah of Charlotte Lynn
12:30 pm Kiddush lunch (no charge, please register below)
1:30 pm Teaching, Psalm 19: Discovering God in Torah and Nature

Saturday Evening 2/21 • Grove Ave.
Havdalah 6:38 pm
8:00 pm Keynote Address: Compassion and the Heart of Jewish Spirituality
followed by Dessert reception (no charge, please register below)

Sunday 2/22 • Religious School
8:00 am Minyan (earlier than normal)
9:00 am Religious School Drop-off & Coffee Reception
9:30 am Discussion: Rav Shai Held with School Parents (please register below)

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Friday Dinner - Individual ($18)

Friday Dinner - Family ($54)

Friday Dinner - Children age 3 and under (free)

Saturday Breakfast (free)

Saturday Kiddush Lunch - Adult (free)

Saturday Kiddush Lunch - Child under 13 (free)

Saturday Evening Keynote/Dessert Reception (free)

Sunday Parent Discussion (free)

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Sun, January 25 2026
7 Shevat 5786

About Rabbi Held

President and Dean of the Hadar Institute, Rabbi Shai Held is a philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar. He received the prestigious Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education, and has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America, and as one of the 50 most prominent Jews in the world by the Jewish Daily Forward.

Rabbi Held is the author of Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (2013), The Heart of Torah (2017), and Judaism is About Love (2024), and he is the host of Hadar's newest podcast, Answers WithHeld.

Sun, January 25 2026 7 Shevat 5786


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