Leon Wiener Dow directs the Beit Midrash at Kolot and is the cre­ator and host of the pod­cast Pod Drash. He received semi­cha from R’ David Hartmanז״ל and his doc­tor­ate from Bar Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty. His most recent book, The Going: A Med­i­ta­tion on Jew­ish Law won a 2018 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, and his Your Walk­ing on the Way [Hebrew] was pub­lished by Bar Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty Press. Leon and his wife are par­ents of five chil­dren, and they live in Jerusalem.