Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a nationally recognized educator, religious leader, author, and lecturer. He served as rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for more than three decades and is assistant professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University in New York City. He has been the scholar-in-residence for numerous congregations throughout the United States, Canada, and the Orient, and he has lectured to Jewish communities in Israel, Australia, and many other countries. Rabbi Blech has written articles for Tradition, Jewish Life, Reader's Digest, Jewish Week, Newsweek, and Newsday. He is the author of More Secrets of Hebrew Words: Holy Days and Happy Days and Understanding Judaism: The Basics of Deed and Creed, which is now available on video as a series of lectures distributed by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations.