(Courtesy of Congregation Shaare Tefillah) Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky will speak on “When Chagai Prophesied in the Sixth Month: Mindfulness and the Month of Elul” this Shabbat, August 25, following Musaf, at Congregation Shaare Tefillah, 510 Claremont Avenue, Teaneck.

Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky is the incoming director of interdisciplinary studies and educational outreach at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, New Jersey, where he will be teaching Judaic studies classes, collaborating with faculty to deepen the culture of interdisciplinary student learning and developing educational outreach programs for the school’s families and partner communities. He previously served as Rosh Beit Midrash of Kohelet Yeshiva in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania.

A popular lecturer and author, Rabbi Sinensky recently completed book-length treatments of the Jewish return to Zion during the Second Temple period and the mitzvah of Torah study, published by Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Virtual Beit Midrash. He is an editor of The Lehrhaus website, is active on Sefaria.org and is pursuing a PhD in Jewish thought at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. His interdisciplinary high school course on Jewish & Western philosophy and the humanities was awarded the inaugural Kohelet Prize.