Professor Reuven Kimelman is Professor of Classical Judaica at Brandeis University and rabbi of Beth Abraham Sephardic Congregation of Brookline MA. His Ph.D. is from Yale University in Religious Studies. He is the author of The Mystical Meaning of ‘Lekhah Dodi’ and Kabbalat Shabbat,’ published by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the forthcoming The Rhetoric of Jewish Prayer: A Historical and Literary Commentary of the Prayer Book.