Rabbi Shlomo Polachek was born in New York City in 1947. He received rabbinical ordination at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva in 1971. In 1977, Rabbi Polachek immigrated to Israel, served as a chaplain in the Israeli Army reserves, and lives in Rehovot. The Biblical Outlook was originally published in Hebrew in 2004 as Hashkafat HaMikra.
