About Rabbi Ted
Rabbi Ted Falcon is a popular teacher of Jewish traditions of meditation and spirituality who explores the frontier of interfaith spirituality. He is co-author of Judaism For Dummies and author of A Journey of Awakening: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Tree of Life.
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 until, with research focused on the nature of meditative and mystical states of consciousness, he earned a doctorate in Professional Psychology in 1975. 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, where he serves as senior rabbi. Bringing new life to Jewish traditions of meditation and spirituality, Bet Alef has become a spiritual home to those seeking the spiritual essence of their identity.