Lawrence Kelemen is an Orthodox rabbi and international lecturer. He is an author of many books, most notably Permission to Believe (Targum Press, 1990), Permission to Receive (Targum Press, 1994),To Kindle A Soul (Leviathan Press/Targum Press, 2001), and he is the translator of the classical text of ancient pedagogical theory, "Planting and Building" (Feldheim Press, 1999).