Rabbi Refael Wolfe is originally from Ottawa, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University and a Master’s in Talmudic Law from Ner Yisrael Rabbinical College. He has studied in Yeshivas Darche Noam/Shapell’s; Mir Yerushalayim; Ner Yisrael, Baltimore; and Kollel Oholei Yom Tov, Toronto. He currently lives with his family in Yerushalayim and is learning in the Ohr Lagolah Semicha Kollel. He writes a weekly devar Torah email called “Parsha Ponders.” Select pieces from this series have been compiled into a sefer with the same name. Archives of previous emails can be viewed at https://parshaponders.com.