Nilton Bonder was trained and ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. He lectures regularly in the United States. Born in Brazil, he's a best-selling author of twenty-nine books in Latin America, leads one of Brazil's most influential Jewish congregations, and is active in civil rights and ecological causes. Some of his books have been translated in Europe and Asia and twelve of them in the U.S., including The Kabbalah of Money and The Kabbalah of Food, published by Shambhala. He's led workshops for corporations such as IBM and Globo Network Television, and delivered lectures at Boston University, New York Central Library, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, The Open Center, and Omega Institute. He lives in Rio de Janeiro and New York City.