Rabbi Ari Kahn graduated from Yeshiva University with a BA in psychology, an MS degree in Talmud, and rabbinic ordination where he studied with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He is Director of Foreign Student Programs at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and a senior lecturer in Jewish studies. Rabbi Kahn is Vice President of Migdal Ohr Institutions in Israel, and a senior educator at the Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies. He has published two books, Explorations on the weekly parsha, and Emanations on the Jewish holidays. Rabbi Kahn combines the mystical explorations of kabbala and chassidism with psychology, literature and Jewish history for a broad-minded approach to Torah study. He has lived in Israel since 1984 with his wife Naomi and their five children.