Check out Rabbi Moshe’s website, maybe listen to some of his music!
Moshe Heyn is a rabbi, musician, chaplain, surfer and spiritual activist who practices and teaches a synthesis of humanism and mysticism, known in academic circles as Neo-Hasidism. Born and raised in Baltimore, he received his musical training at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He later earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Master’s degree, Rabbinic ordination and honorary doctorate from the Hebrew Union College.
In the twenty-five years since his ordination, Rabbi Heyn served congregations, schools and nonprofits in Ohio, Vermont and South Florida. He has been active in rabbinic associations and interfaith councils, has received numerous awards, and is widely-known as a genuine rabbi, chaplain and friend. As a musician, he has performed around the country as a soloist, with his band MAMASH, and as one of Cincinnati’s Three Jewish Tenors.
In July 2019, he returned to the Bay Area (where he previously lived as a young adult) and decided to make his home in Half Moon Bay. In addition to his work as a Hospice Chaplain for VITAS Healthcare, he is proud to serve as the Spiritual Leader of Coastside Jewish Community.
In the development of his spiritual identity, Rabbi Heyn has met and been influenced by teachers as diverse and renowned as the Dalai Lama and the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He spent ten years studying and practicing Eastern approaches to spirituality, followed by thirty years studying and practicing Jewish spirituality and kabbalah under some of the greatest teachers of this generation, such as Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Arthur Green.
Reb Moshe has three sons living in the Bay Area. His partner, Jill, has a daughter in San Francisco and another in Los Angeles, so they’re happy to be here on the West Coast. Moshe Tom’s father and older brother, John, still live in the Baltimore/Washington area. They are all happy to be extended members of the growing Coastside Jewish Community family!
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