Rabbi Jeff Amshalem earned his doctorate in Jewish thought from Ben-Gurion University and has rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes and Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg of Jerusalem. He has taught at Elul Secular Beit Midrash in Jerusalem, Hebrew College, and Tufts University. He lives in Sharon, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ariella, four children, a dog, a cat, and 14 chickens. Jeff previously taught a class on the intersection of Kabbalah and Science in early modernity for the Aquarian Minyan Yeshivah