About Rabbi Ted
Rabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D. is a popular teacher of Jewish traditions of meditation and spirituality who explores the frontier of interfaith spirituality.
Through worship, teaching, counseling, and speaking, Rabbi Ted invites the celebration of the spiritual gifts of Judaism, while appreciating that Judaism is only one of the authentic spiritual traditions of the world. He is the 2010 Scholar-in-Residence at Unity of Bellevue.
His most recent book, with his Interfaith Amigos, Pastor Don Mackenzie and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, is Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & a Sheikh, published by Skylight Paths. He is co-author of Judaism For Dummies and author of A Journey of Awakening: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tree of Life.
In addition to doing programs and traveling with his Amigos and on his own, he writes, teaches, and provides spiritual counseling.
Ordained in 1968 at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Rabbi Ted served in Los Angeles as a congregational and then a campus rabbi. In 1975, he earned a doctorate in Professional Psychology, with research focused on the nature of meditative and mystical states of consciousness. He pursued a career in spiritually-oriented psychotherapy and, in 1978, founded Makom Ohr Shalom, A Synagogue for Jewish Spirituality.
When he moved to Seattle in 1993, Rabbi Ted and his wife, Ruth Neuwald Falcon, founded Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue. He completed his final year as Bet Alef's senior rabbi at the end of 2009.
Photo by Mark Reden.
Ordained in 1968 at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Rabbi Ted served in Los Angeles as a congregational and then a campus rabbi. In 1975, he earned a doctorate in Professional Psychology, with research focused on the nature of meditative and mystical states of consciousness. He pursued a career in spiritually-oriented psychotherapy and, in 1978, founded Makom Ohr Shalom, A Synagogue for Jewish Spirituality.
When he moved to Seattle in 1993, Rabbi Ted and his wife, Ruth Neuwald Falcon, founded Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue. He completed his final year as Bet Alef's senior rabbi at the end of 2009.
Photo by Mark Reden.