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Aryeh Ben David was born in the United States and moved to Israel where he received Rabbinic Ordination. He taught at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem for 20 years, serving as director of spiritual education. In 2008 he founded Ayeka: Center for Soulful Education. Ayeka trains rabbis, educators and Jewish professionals on how to deeply personalize their learning and bring Jewish wisdom from their mind to their hearts and souls, and into their lives. He is the author of “Around the Shabbat Table, a Guide to Meaningful Shabbat Conversations” (2000), “The Godfile, Ten Approaches To Personalizing Prayer” (2007), “Becoming a Soulful Educator: How to Bring Jewish Learning from Our Minds, to Our Hearts, to Our Souls―and Into Our Lives” (2016), “Hearing Your Own Voice: A Family Haggadah” (2017) and most recently a book of spiritual reflections, "Prayers of the Lost & Found" (2019). Aryeh is married to Sandra. They have six children and a bunch of grandchildren.