Rab­bi Michael Strass­feld was one of the edi­tors of The Jew­ish Cat­a­log (1973) a guide to do-it-your­self Judaism that sold over 300,000 copies. He authored The Jew­ish Hol­i­days (1985), co-authored A Night of Ques­tions: A Passover Hag­gadah (1999) with his wife Rab­bi Joy Levitt, and authored A Book of Life: Embrac­ing Judaism as a Spir­i­tu­al Prac­tice (2002).