# Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism

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Podcast: [On Being with Krista Tippett](https://stenobird.com/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett-279891)
Published: 2026-03-26T18:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://onbeing.org/programs/shai-held-on-love-and-judaism/
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## Resource

From Krista: I'm on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an enduring truth that love is the only force as powerful in a human body as fear. And we inhabit a world that calls us to grow up our capacity to love — and to redeem our relationships to neighbors, strangers, and enemies — as never before, both in the present and for the sake of the world beyond this age of violence we've come to inhabit. Rabbi Shai Held has written an epic theological work called Judaism is About Love. And, as he interrogates Judaism's complicated history with love, he makes an offering that is of relevance to us all.

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