On Monday evening, May 12 at 7:30 pm, Rabbi Herzl Hefter, founder of Beit Midrash Har’El will be speaking in Evanston, IL on the topic of: Navigating Change and Tradition. To receive exact address, please RSVP here.

About Navigating Change and Tradition
If anything characterizes the times in which we live is that things are constantly changing. This reality places us in conflict with the Tradition to which we are committed. Rabbi Hefter will attempt to provide an authentic way for us to navigate these turbulent waters.


Rabbi Herzl Hefter is the founder and Rosh Beit Midrash Har’el in memory of Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum, in Jerusalem. It is a beit midrash for advanced rabbinic studies for men and women. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University where he learned under the tutelage of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik זצ”ל, and received smikha from Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein זצ”ל at Yeshivat Har Etzion where he studied for ten years. Rabbi Hefter taught Yoreh De’ah to the Kollel fellows at the Gruss Kollel of Yeshiva University and served as the head of the Bruria Scholars Program at Midreshet Lindenbaum. He also taught at Yeshivat Mekor Chaim in Moscow and served as Rosh Kollel of the first Torah MiZion Kollel in Cleveland, Ohio. He has written numerous articles related to modernity and Hasidic thought. His divrei Torah and online shiurim can be accessed at www.har-el.org