Rami M. Shapiro

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Full Name	Rami M. Shapiro
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Apr 26, 1951(1951-04-26)
Age	73
Birthplace	Springfield
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Rami M. Shapiro Biography

Rami M. Shapiro is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on April 26, 1951 in Springfield, United States. Rami M. Shapiro, born 26 April 1951, is a teacher, author, and speaker who specializes in liberal Judaism, contemporary spirituality, and other topics. He was the Adjunct Professor in Religion at Middle Tennessee State University for ten years.

After graduating, Shapiro made a move to Miami, Florida and founded Temple Beth Or. This synagogue was a think tank and synagogue where he tried out new forms of Jewish liturgy. He also combined his experience with Judaism and Buddhism. Geshin Roshi’s International Zen Institute of Miami helped him continue his Zen practice. Shapiro earned a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School in Contemporary Jewish Studies in 1985. His work with the temple was the foundation for his dissertation. Shapiro spent 20 years at Temple Beth Or studying with Rabbi Zalman Shachter Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal (a neo- Hasidic organization). Shachter-Shalomi conferred the title of Rebbe to him in 2000.

In 2012 Shapiro teamed up with Reverend Tim Miner and the Order of Universal Interfaith to co-found the annual Big I Conference on Inclusive Theology, Spirituality, and Consciousness.

Shapiro entered the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in 1976, and spent his first year of study in Jerusalem, where he studied privately with Rabbi Kaplan, who was then 99 years old, and with Rabbi Sherwin Wine and the Society for Humanistic Judaism. After his year in Jerusalem, Shapiro continued his studies under the tutelage of Ellis Rivkin, Eugene Mihaly, Alvin Reines, and Rabbi Sherwin Wine, seeking to blend his love of Judaism with his passion for Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vendanta (non-dual Hinduism). In 1979 he was appointed as a chaplain in the United States Air Force, where he served as the full-time rabbi at Wright–Patterson AFB. Shapiro completed his rabbinic studies in 1981.

Shapiro was invited in 1984 to be a founding member the Snowmass Group. This annual gathering of contemplatives of various faiths is held at St. Benedict’s Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado. It is under Father Thomas Keating’s auspices. Shapiro met Ed Bastian through Keating and was invited to join the Spiritual Paths Institute’s faculty. Swami Atmarupananda was also on the institute’s faculty and became Shapiro’s primary Hindu teacher. After a decade of studying, Shapiro was inducted into the Ramakrishna Order Vedanta Hinduism by Swami Swahananda, Atmarupananda’s teacher. Shapiro lectures at Vedanta centers across India and the United States on the similarities between Judaism, Hinduism, and Hinduism.

Rami M. Shapiro Net Worth

Rami M. Shapiro is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rami M. Shapiro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1969 Shapiro was a philosophy major at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He met Teresina Havens at Smith College, where he was a private student. She is a former professor of world religion who taught Shapiro the Bhagavad Gita as well as Goddess-based spirituality. Havens was his mentor and he organized a private conference to explore the archetypal Divine Feminine of Judaism as well as Hinduism.

Shapiro spent a year abroad and attended University of Tel Aviv. He studied Jewish philosophy, particularly Martin Buber’s. He also studied Chabad Hasidism and spent a few months at Kfar Chabad. Kfar Chabad is a Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic community. After completing his studies, he enrolled at Smith College as a full-time student (one of eight men permitted to do so at that time), and majored in Buddhist Studies under Professor Taitetsu. Shapiro was responsible for Smith’s Zendo and satshin with Joshu Sakaki Roshi from Mount Baldy Zen Center. In 1973, the University of Massachusetts conferred his philosophy degree.

In 2002 Shapiro was invited to deliver the Huston Smith Lecture at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He called this lecture, delivered with Smith sitting in the front row, “one of the highlights of my career.”

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