American born Mimi Feigelson made Aliya with her family to Israel when 8yrs. old and has lived there till accepting the appointment as Lecturer of Rabbinic Studies at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism, in 2001. Upon completing two years of national service she then continued to pursue an academic education at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) is in History and Special Education. Her M.A. (Magna Cum Laude) is in Jewish Philosophy. She also holds a teaching license from Hebrew University. Parallel to her academic studies she studied at various yeshivot in Jerusalem. Mimi has dedicated her life to studying and teaching Torah. In 1992 she was a core founding-member of Yakar Jerusalem ­ A Center for Tradition and Creativity, where she served as the associate director, the director of the Women¹s Beit Midrash and full time teacher, specializing in Chassidic literature. She also is a founding faculty member of “Ta Shma” ­ an organization that promotes Jewish pluralism among college students and young Jewish leadership. Among the Israeli institutions, Mimi is most grateful for her teaching position at the Ma’aleh Film School and her recurring publishing in the Ha’aretz Literary Magazine. She does free lance teaching in religious high schools and teacher¹s seminars throughout Israel. Though based in Jerusalem till recently, Mimi’s teaching has taken her around the world – primarily Canada, England, the F.S.U. and the U.S.A. For three years she led a Passover retreat in Dharamsala, India, where she engaged in interfaith dialogue as well. Mimi is a life long student of Torah, combining in her work both the dialectic and harmonious elements of mind and heart, body and soul, through rigorous text analysis, music and contemplation.