Rabbi Dovid Perkel has been a marbitz Torah in Chicago for over fifteen years, eight of which years he served as the rav of a kehilla, and currently teaches machshava and Tanach at Beis Medrash L'Torah (Skokie Yeshiva) and Jewish Business Ethics at Sarah Hartman Women's College. He is the author of Mafteach L'Omek HaNetziv on the Netziv's HaEmek Davar and is in the process of authoring other works of mussar and machshava. He is a licensed attorney and a certified mediator and works at a private debt fund.