Rabbi Hillel Goldberg is an independent scholar, writer and the author of major studies on the Musar movement, including The Fire Within as well as Israel Salanter: Text, Structure, Idea, winner of an Academic Book of the Year award from Choice. A former lecturer in Jewish intellectual history at the Hebrew University, he is the longtime senior editor at Tradition and original contributing editor for the Jewish Action.As editor and publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News, he has many Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. His most recent work consists of two acclaimed Hebrew volumes on the Vilna Gaon's commentary on the Code of Jewish Law. He lives in Denver.