Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan came to the Bay Area to teach printmaking at UAHC Camp Swig and to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. After a decade of creating ketubot (illuminated wedding documents), printmaking, and working in informal education, he traveled to Israel in 1985 to study at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, then completed his rabbinical training in Cincinnati. From 1990 to 2010 he served Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco as rabbi and senior educator. To deepen his own Talmud studies, he founded Downtown Lunchtime Talmud (DLT) in 1991. At Lehrhaus Judaica, DLT expanded into the Bay Area Community Talmud Circles, which continue today with New Lehrhaus.