Howard Avruhm Addison

Howard Avruhm Addison is Gershom Scholem Professor of Jewish Spirituality. He is an Assistant Professor at Temple University where he teaches in the Intellectual Heritage Program. Ordained as a Rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary, he is certified as an Enneagram teacher by Helen Palmer and as a Fellow in Contemplative Group Leadership by the Shalem Institute. Rabbi Addison holds a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois, a M.A. in Philosophy from Hunter College/NYC, a M.A. in Hebrew Letters and a Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City, a D.Min. from the Chicago Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Foundation. Together with Barbara Eve Breitman and Rabbi Zari Weiss, he is a founding teacher and co-director of Lev Shomea, the first institute for training spiritual directors in the Jewish tradition, affiliated with the Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut.

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Jewish (Rabbi/Conservative)