Rabbi Mencahem Creditor, the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar in Residence at UJA-Federation New York and the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence, will visit Lancaster's Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, 75 E. James St., Lancaster, as its annual Nathan and Natalie Loss Scholar-in-Residence from Friday to Sunday, Feb. 3 to 5. Creditor will address the topics "Imperfect Biblical Heroes," "Fault Lines: Exploring the Complicated Place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism," and "The Jewish Ethics of Weaponry."

Sessions will begin during Erev Shabbat services at 7 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the Shaarai Shomayim sanctuary. Creditor will continue his residency on Saturday, Feb. 4, with a 9 a.m. session and a 7 p.m. discussion, both in the temple's Wise Social Hall. Attendees should enter the social hall on Duke Street. Each Saturday session is stand-alone and is free and open to the public.

Creditor is an acclaimed author, scholar, and speaker with more than 2 million views of his online videos and essays. He was named by Newsweek as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America. His 30 published books and six albums of original music include the global anthem "Olam Chesed Yibaneh" and the COVID-era two-volume anthology "When We Turned Within." He and his wife, Neshama Carlebach, live in New York, where they are raising their five children.

For more information, call the temple office at 717-397-5575 or visit http://www.shaarai.org. For more information about Creditor, visit http://rabbicreditor.blogspot.com/p/about.html.