Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Hecker is the author of Volume 11 and (with Nathan Wolski) Volume 12 of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, the first complete annotated translation into English of Kabbalah's central work. He has also published Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah, and articles on mysticism, ritual, eating, and shame. He received rabbinic ordination from YU (1990) and a Ph.D. in Jewish Mysticism from NYU (1996).