Prof. Admiel Kosman, is Professor for Jewish Studies at Potsdam University as well as the academic director of Geiger College, a training school for liberal rabbis, in Berlin. The author of several books and many articles in the field of talmudic research, and of collections of Hebrew poetry. His latest academic book is Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter), and his most recent collection of poetry is Approaching You in English: Selected Poems (Boston, Zephyr Press).