Rabbi David A. Teutsch is a longtime professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served as president for a decade and then became director of its Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish ethics. The editor of the groundbreaking seven-volume Kol Haneshamah prayer book series and a three-volume Guide to Jewish Practice, he is the author of dozens of other books and articles as well as an internationally known lecturer and consultant.