THE ELIJAH MINYAN
A San Diego Jewish Renewal Community
A San Diego Jewish Renewal Community
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OUR RABBI
RABBI WAYNE DOSICK, Ph.D., D.D.
RABBI WAYNE DOSICK, Ph.D., D.D.
RABBI DR. WAYNE DOSICK is the founder and spiritual guide of The Elijah Minyan — bringing Spiritual Judaism and Jewish Renewal to San Diego.Rabbi Dosick is a dynamic, inspiring, and loving educator, writer, spiritual guide and healer, who teaches and counsels about faith and spirit, ethical values, life transformations, and evolving human consciousness.
He is well-known for quality scholarship and sacred spirit, his reading of traditional texts for their sense of prophetic social justice, his abiding commitment to utmost dignity and decency for every human being, and his lifetime of guiding people to a deep, personal, intimate relationship with the Divine.
He has been described as a “rational intellect with the soul of a mystic,” and he has been called “one of the most gifted teachers of our generation, who understands the mindset, needs, and yearnings of people, and responds to this intellectual and inner searching in peerless fashion.” Recently, he has been called, "a spiritual master of our time."
Rabbi Dosick has served San Diego Jewry for the past thirty-six years — notably at Congregation Beth El in La Jolla; as the founder of Congregation Beth Am, now in Carmel Valley; and for these past nineteen years, The Elijah Minyan. He is the longest serving Rabbi in San Diego county.
For more than seventeen years (1988 - 2005), he served as an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, teaching the only courses in Jewish Studies at this Catholic university.
Rabbi Dosick is the best-selling, award-winning author of eight critically acclaimed books.
For a complete bibliography of his books, please see the Rabbi’s Books section of this website.His articles and essays have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, and he contributed more than fifty entries to An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies (Liturgical Press, 2007.)
His newest book,
The Real Name of God: Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine
will be published in early 2012 by Inner Traditions - Bear & Co.
For almost twenty years — until its much lamented demise because of the financial failure of its publishers — he was a Contributing Editor of The San Diego Jewish Times, which published more than 400 of his bi-weekly columns, “Rabbinic Insights,” his religious, political, and social commentary.
Currently, he is the host of SpiritTalk Live!: Journeys into Mind, Heart, and Soul, a weekly Internet radio program, heard on HealthyLife.net. SpirtTalk Live! is a worldwide conversation for exploring the great questions of existence, for joining in the quest to find meaning and worth in life though intellectual inquiry and sacred spirit.
Rabbi Dosick’s commitment to quality Jewish education was manifest in the San Diego community where he was a founder of the San Diego Jewish Academy (now a K-12 community day school) and a founder of the Community Hebrew High School.
Articles about Rabbi Dosick and his books have appeared in more than 85 newspapers and periodicals, and he has appeared on more than 150 radio and television shows, including “Good Morning America,” the Larry King Show, CNN, and NPR. He has spoken and conducted seminars, workshops, and has been scholar-in-residence at more than 200 bookstores, synagogues, churches, schools, universities, and seminaries, hospitals and health care facilities, businesses and corporations, and community organizations throughout the country. He was an early pioneer in Jewish video, creating The Video Synagogue (1982) which brings religious services by means of videotape to those confined to home or health care facility. He is a master teacher who has taught in settings as diverse as: The Aleph Kallah, Elat Chayyim, Ruach HaAretz, the (West Coast) National Chavurah Institute, and the Wexner Foundation. He was once dubbed “America’s favorite Rabbi.”
Rabbi Dosick’s trans-denominationalism in the Jewish world is evidenced by his full memberships in the Rabbinical Assembly (Conservative), the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), and Ohalah (the Association of Jewish Renewal Rabbis.) He is a past president of the San Diego Rabbinical Association, and throughout the years, he served on numerous community boards and committees in San Diego, including the United Jewish Federation, the Jewish Family Service, and the Agency for Jewish Education. For six years, he served on the national Board of Directors of Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger, where he chaired The Rabbinic Table, and now serves on its prestigious Advisory Council. As Dean of Development (1999 - 2000), he was instrumental in bringing a branch of the pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial seminary, the Academy for Jewish Religion, to California, and still serves on its Academic Advisory Council.
In 1998, his alma mater, the Hebrew Union College, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in recognition of his twenty-five years of innovative and sacred service to the American Jewish community. In 2005, the Jewish Theological Seminary also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, making him one of the few rabbis to be recognized by both America’s Reform and Conservative seminaries with an honorary degree.
Rabbi Wayne Dosick brings the message that God — both the transcendent, supernatural God of creation, revelation, and ultimate redemption, and the God of breath, heart, and soul, the God Within — is at the absolute center of our lives. And, he teaches that when we recognize and embrace God’s pathways of goodness, righteousness, and love, then, through the work of our hands, we can transform the world and bring Eden to Earth once again.
OUR REBBETZIN
ELLEN KAUFMAN DOSICK, MSW
holds degrees from the University of Chicago, and served on the faculty of the University of Southern ELLEN KAUFMAN DOSICK, MSW
California School of Social Work. She directed social service agencies — including the Jewish Family Service North County offices here in San Diego — and she is the world master practitioner and teacher of the spiritual psychotherapy, Soul Memory Discovery. With Rabbi Wayne, she is co-author of two books, 20 Minute Kabbalah, and Empowering Your Indigo Child, and she is the author of the bi-monthly Internet publication, The Cosmic Times: Spiritual News You Can Use.
Ellen has been described as a “modern-day prophet,” and Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal has bestowed on her its prestigious designation, Eshet Hazon, “Woman of Vision” and, specifically, M’kasheret Olamot, the “Connector of Worlds.”
Ellen is deeply involved in all aspects of The Elijah Minyan, especially coordinating our High Holiday services and special events, directing Kol Eliahu — the Voice of Elijah — our High Holiday Choir, and guiding the monthly Women’s Rosh Chodesh Gathering.
Ellen’s deep wisdom, profound spiritual connection, and sweet, gentle persona endear her to all who seek her enlightened guidance and counsel.
RABBI WAYNE and ELLEN lives in La Costa, where their home is a center for prayer, learning, and healing; a gathering place for spiritual seekers; and the site of many of The Elijah Minyan's services, classes, activities, and events.
OUR STUDENT RABBI
DAVID BARON
DAVID (pronounced as Hebrew: DA-VEED) BARON is entering his fifth year of rabbinical studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles, and serves as The Elijah Minyan’s Student Rabbi. He especially enjoys learning and teaching Torah with people of all backgrounds and beliefs.
As he studies for the rabbinate, David continues his successful career in Software Industry, calling on his education in Psychology, Cognitive and Computer Sciences.
He is married to Elisheva, and is the proud father of two daughters, Raquel and Sophie.
David will not be with us for the High Holidays this year, because, as part of his rabbinical training, he is interning with another congregation
We look forward to the rest of this year when David will continue to lead us in prayer, give Torah d’rashot, read Torah, and teach classes — and to his ordination in the spring.
DAVID BARON
DAVID (pronounced as Hebrew: DA-VEED) BARON is entering his fifth year of rabbinical studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion in Los Angeles, and serves as The Elijah Minyan’s Student Rabbi. He especially enjoys learning and teaching Torah with people of all backgrounds and beliefs.As he studies for the rabbinate, David continues his successful career in Software Industry, calling on his education in Psychology, Cognitive and Computer Sciences.
He is married to Elisheva, and is the proud father of two daughters, Raquel and Sophie.
David will not be with us for the High Holidays this year, because, as part of his rabbinical training, he is interning with another congregation
We look forward to the rest of this year when David will continue to lead us in prayer, give Torah d’rashot, read Torah, and teach classes — and to his ordination in the spring.
