Rabbi Michael Lerner, Steve Farrell and Anna-Mari Pieterse talk about “being spurred to spiritual acitivsm” Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right, is rabbi of the Bay Area congregation Beyt Tikkun and editor of Tikkun magazine: a bimonthly Jewish and interfaith critique of politics, culture, and society. In the minds of many, he is the leader and most prominent spokesperson in the United States of Jewish supporters of the Israeli peace movement.