RABBI NETANEL WIEDERBLANK studied at the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Kerem B’Yavne, Chevron Yeshiva (Givat Mordechai), Yeshiva University, and RIETS. Currently, he is a Maggid Shiur at Yeshiva University, where he teaches college and semicha students Tal­mud, Halacha, and Jewish Philosophy. Rabbi Wiederblank also serves as rabbi at the Ye­shiva Community Shul (Shenk Shul). He has published articles in Hebrew and English on Talmudic and philosophical issues. This vol­ume, the first to be published in a three-part series on topics in machshava, is his first book. He lives with his wife Sara and their children in Washington Heights.