Rabbi will hall
Rabbi Will Hall, our assistant rabbi, joined our temple on July 1, 2023.
Rabbi Hall previously served as rabbi and senior Jewish educator of The Texas Hillel Foundation.
A Houston native and 8th generation Texan, he is a proud University of Texas graduate, where he majored in Jewish and Religious Studies. Ordained in 2021 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s (HUC) Cincinnati campus, Rabbi Hall’s thesis focused on Jewish modern identity formation and engagement through the lens of sociology.
While at HUC-JIR, Rabbi Hall participated in the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Yearlong Seminar for Rabbinical Students, served as the student rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Bryan-College Station and Temple Israel of Marion, Ohio, and earned a Master’s Concentration in Israel Education from the iCenter for Israel Education.
Before rabbinical school he studied at the Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and, during his time in school, participated in interfaith programming at the Chautauqua Institution and Hebrew immersion study at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Please feel free to reach out to Rabbi Hall by email to get the conversation started!
High Holy Days Sermons from Rabbi Hall
5785 (2024)
"Don't Give Up On Diaspora Judaism." Erev Rosh Hashanah Service
(watch the sermon)
"Nobody Wants This Sermon." Yom Kippur Late Morning Service
(watch the sermon)
5784 (2023)
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5784 (2023)