Philip Wexler is Executive Director of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality and Society and Professor of Sociology of Education and Unterberg Chair in Jewish Social and Educational History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emeritus). He was formerly Scandling Professor of Education and Sociology and Founding Dean of the Warner Graduate School at the University of Rochester, Visiting Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University, and Professor of Social Pedagogy and Social Policy at the Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology from Princeton University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow. He is the author of a number of books in Social Theory, Education, and Jewish Mysticism. His latest publication is Mystical Sociology: Toward Cosmic Social Theory . He is currently working on a book about the Social Vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.