DR. AVIVAH GOTTLIEB ZORNBERG is the author of Genesis: The Beginning of Desire, for which she won the National Jewish Book Award, and The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus. She was born in London and grew up in Glasgow, where her father was a rabbi and the head of the rabbinical court. Avivah holds a doctorate in English literature from Cambridge University. After teaching English literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, she turned her literary sensibility and skills to teaching Torah. For the past twenty years, she has taught Torah in Jerusalem at Matan, Pardes, and the Jerusalem College for Adults. Avivah also holds a Visiting Lectureship at the London School of Jewish Studies. She travels widely, lecturing in Jewish and academic settings. Her forthcoming book, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Rabbinic Unconscious, is in press (Schocken).