Educational background

MbY has a B.A. degree in journalism from Louisiana State University, an MBA degree in business administration from Northeast Louisiana University, attended the ORU Graduate School of Theology for three years and was studying at Yeshiva Ohr Someah in Jerusalem at the time of his second and third political arrests and imprisonment.  He is trained in biblical Hebrew and Aramaic exegesis.

His smichah (spiritual authority akin to an ordination) allows him to teach Torah to non-Jews and to Jews who first understand that he is not a rabbi and may not make binding rulings or opinions related to Halachah.  All of his teaching is based on a very strict and often literal historical/grammatical exegesis of the Hebrew Torah and Tanach and Aramaic (New Testament) texts.