The Book of Jewish Knowledge: Flexcover Edition - Softcover

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Rabbi Yanki Tauber is a Hasidic scholar, writer, and editor. He is the author of twelve books and hundreds essays of biblical commentary and Jewish and Hasidic thought, and his writings have been translated into Spanish, German, French, Russian, Hebrew, and other languages.

Born and raised in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, Tauber is a graduate of The Rabbinical College of America, and received his rabbinical ordination in 1987. A pioneer of online content creation in the early days of the World Wide Web, Tauber served as chief content editor of Chabad.org, the world's largest Jewish educational website, from 1999 to 2013. He is currently a senior editor at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute; he is also the chief writer and editor of the Open Book Torah, a new translation and anthologized commentary for The Five Books of Moses. Rabbi Tauber has taught and lectured at the Maayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, the Eliezer Society at Yale University, and other academic forums. Yanki is married to Riki Segal and the couple has three daughters--Leah, Chany, and Racheli.