Benjamin Blech is an internationally recognized educator, religious leader, author, and lecturer. He is the author of twelve highly acclaimed and best-selling books, with combined sales of close to half a million copies. Blech’s most recent book, The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo’s Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican, was the subject of an ABC News 20/20 special. A recipient of the American Educator of the Year Award, he has been a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966.