Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron teaches Jewish Thought and Halachah at Midreshet. While the first thing our students usually notice about Rav Ron is how amazingly laid-back and fun his shiurim are, the next thing they notice is the astounding breadth of his knowledge and his rare gift to make everything he says sound fascinating! His shiur on the thought of Ramchal, "Derech Hashem," is among the most beloved shiurim at Midreshet. Rav Ron has published numerous articles in both Hebrew and English in The Jewish Bible Quarterly, Hakirah, Tradition, Sinai, haMaayan and The Journal of Jewish Music and Liturgy and has published two books, Katan ve-Gadol on the big and small letters in Tanach and Sefer haIkkar Chaser on the variant spellings of words in Tanach. Rav Ron learned in Yeshivat Shaalvim's Hesder Program and Kollel, received Semichah from the Israeli Rabbanut, and earned a BA in Psychology at SUNY and a PhD in Jewish Theology at Spertus University. He served as Rabbi in Richmond, Virginia, from 1994 to 2004. He lives in Neve Daniel with his family.