Ben­jamin J. Samuels, rab­bi of Con­gre­ga­tion Shaarei Tefillah in New­ton Cen­tre, MA, teach­es wide­ly in the Greater Boston area. He is also a doc­tor­al stu­dent in the ​“Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy and Reli­gion” Pro­gram in the Depart­ment of Reli­gion at Boston University.