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Bio

Community Builder | Music Maker | Spiritual Artist

I’m a singing rabbi and teacher of Jewish wisdom who’s trying to listen better. Native New Yorker. Proud Philadelphian.

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I’m facilitator of prayer, a musician and composer, a pastoral caregiver and educator. Raised in a mixed Orthodox Ashkenazi and Mizrahi home, I’ve taught and led prayer in communities of every Jewish movement.

My original Jewish music is sung at synagogues, schools, and camps across the country. My first album of original music, Open My Heart, was released by Rising Song Records in winter 2019. As a sought-after vocalist, I perform and records with a wide range of Jewish artists. I’m a longtime featured vocalist in the Hadar Ensemble and a founding member of the Middle Eastern Jewish music ensemble the Epichorus. Along with trombonist Dan Blacksberg, I was selected by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts for its 2018–19 Jazz Residency.

I was ordained by Jewish Theological Seminary with a concentration in pastoral care and counseling, and was awarded a Master of Sacred Music. Since then, I honed honed my practice of pastoral care as a chaplain resident at Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia’s busiest Level I trauma center, before serving as a Rabbi and Director of Sacred Music at a large urban Conservative congregation reviving the music program, enriching prayer life, and launching an engagement initiative that resulted in unprecedented growth in membership.

As co-director of Hadar's Rising Song Institute, alongside Joey Weisenberg, I launched the Rising Song Records music label and initiated the year-long Jewish Music Residency program for emerging musical-spiritual artists, serving as spiritual advisor and teaching prayer, spiritual development and Jewish music. I continue to serve Rising Song Institute as an artist and Senior Advisor.

For over a decade, as a consultant, I have advised synagogues and prayer communities seeking to deepen the communal spiritual experience through musical prayer. I have has served as a ba’al tefillah (prayer facilitator) for some of the most spiritually vibrant and creative prayer communities in the United States and Israel, including Romemu and B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan, the Kitchen in San Francisco, and Beit Tefila Yisraeli in Israel.

I live in Philadelphia with his wife, Rabbi Annie Lewis, and their children, Zohar Lieba and Shir Emet.