About Us
Rabbi's Resource is a project of Rabbi Eliezer Shore, Ph.D. Raised in Great Neck, NY, in a Reform Jewish home, he studied liberal arts at Sarah Lawrence College (1982), and after graduation, attended various yeshivot in New York and Israel. In 1993, he received an M.A. in Jewish Education from Yeshivah University, graduating with honors. In 1996, he received Rabbinic Ordination from R. Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, a member of the Jerusalem Beit Din, and in 2005, he received a Ph.D. in Jewish Philosophy from Bar-Ilan University. During this entire time, he wrote and taught on topics of Jewish Law, Philosophy and Spirituality.
R. Shore has taught at numerous institutions around Israel. Most notably, the Bat Ayin Yeshiva, in Gush Etzion, the Rothberg School at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the Overseas Program at Bar-Ilan University, Michlalah Jerusalem, and the David Cardozo Academy. From 1991 until 2000, he edited and published Bas Ayin: A Journal of Jewish Spirituality, which was distributed free worldwide. |
Publications I have contributed to,
edited or translated. |
In 1998, R. Yaacov Haber, then Director of Jewish Outreach at the Orthodox Union (currently Rabbi of Congregation Shivtei Yeshurun in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel), sought Rabbi Shore's involvement in the Orthodox Unions popular Pardes Project. R. Shore researched, wrote and translated material for the project until its conclusion in 2001, producing numerous high quality pamphlets devoted to Jewish self-learning.
Since 1993, he has worked extensively for R. Yaakov Hillel, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ahavat Shalom of Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost Kabbalists. R. Shore has edited and translated many of R. Hillels teachings, as well as contributed to the production of numerous English-language volumes produced by the yeshiva publishing house. He has also worked privately for other leading Rabbis, bringing their teachings to publication. Most notably, he translated the three volume set of teachings of R. Yaakov Meir Shechter - a leader of the Jerusalem Breslov community, as well as the teachings of R. Mordechai Dolinsky - mashgiach ruchani of Torah Ohr Yeshiva.
In 2004, he founded Bnei Heichala - an email forum for Orthodox teachers of Hasidism and Kabbalah. He is in constant contact with teachers, scholars, rabbis and academics from around the world.
His original articles have appeared in Parabola Magazine, Shma, HaModia, and other publications. He is also a dynamic storyteller, whose original tales and retellings have appeared in anthologies and have been read over international radio. In 1997, he founded the Jerusalem Storytelling Circle, as well as delivered weekly stories on a local, Jerusalem radio station.
He lives in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem with his wife and children.
You can download R. Shore's c.v. by clicking here, or visit his website, by clicking here.
Since 1993, he has worked extensively for R. Yaakov Hillel, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ahavat Shalom of Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost Kabbalists. R. Shore has edited and translated many of R. Hillels teachings, as well as contributed to the production of numerous English-language volumes produced by the yeshiva publishing house. He has also worked privately for other leading Rabbis, bringing their teachings to publication. Most notably, he translated the three volume set of teachings of R. Yaakov Meir Shechter - a leader of the Jerusalem Breslov community, as well as the teachings of R. Mordechai Dolinsky - mashgiach ruchani of Torah Ohr Yeshiva.
In 2004, he founded Bnei Heichala - an email forum for Orthodox teachers of Hasidism and Kabbalah. He is in constant contact with teachers, scholars, rabbis and academics from around the world.
His original articles have appeared in Parabola Magazine, Shma, HaModia, and other publications. He is also a dynamic storyteller, whose original tales and retellings have appeared in anthologies and have been read over international radio. In 1997, he founded the Jerusalem Storytelling Circle, as well as delivered weekly stories on a local, Jerusalem radio station.
He lives in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem with his wife and children.
You can download R. Shore's c.v. by clicking here, or visit his website, by clicking here.