On Tuesday evening, May 6 at 7:30 pm, Rabbi Herzl Hefter, founder of Yeshivat Har’El will be speaking in Woodmere, NY on the topic of: Is there a conflict between morality and halakha? To receive exact address, please RSVP here.

Is there a conflict between morality and halakha? 
Modern Orthodox Jews are facing unprecedented challenges today in terms of commitment to tradition on the one hand and authentic openness to modernity on the other. Often we find our commitment to Halacha and tradition to be in conflict with our refined moral sensibilities. Rather than attempting to explain away the problems with mediocre apologetics, Rabbi Hefter will attempt to present an honest and novel framework with which to grapple with our modern dilemma.


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