Rabbanit Dr. Michal Tikochinsky is one of Israel's leading women Talmud scholars and educators. Trained first as a lawyer, she holds a master's degree in law and a doctorate in Talmud from Bar-Ilan University. She heads the halakha department at Midreshet Migdal Oz and has written widely on halakha and women's issues. Her Hebrew essays on the weekly parasha are collected in Karati B'khol Lev.