Rabbi Mitchell Chefitz is the author of the best-selling novel The Seventh Telling: The Kabbalah of Moshe Katan. His story collection, The Curse of Blessings, has been widely translated. His rabbinic career includes 12 years at Temple Israel of Greater Miami as rabbi and scholar-in-residence, as well as more than 20 years as director of the Havurah of South Florida. He currently is program director for the Center for Jewish Life in Miami. His recent publications include The Kabbalist’s Aleph-Bet, an adventure through the Hebrew letters, and Beyond Prayer, eighteen lessons to enhance rabbinic prayer or replace it.