Meet Our People

Rabbi E. David Curiel
[he/him]

Program Manager, Wisdom School
Judaism

Awards, Certificates, and Degrees

  • Certificate, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
    Somatic Experiencing International (2023)

  • Ordination, Rabbi
    ALEPH Ordination Programs (2018)

  • Ordination, Mashpia Ruchani [Spiritual Director]
    ALEPH Ordination Programs, Hashpa’ah Program (2017)

  • Master of Business Administration
    Indiana University at Bloomington (2001)

  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1995)

I am a seeker and a teacher. But more important than my role is the question: what is my place in the flow of this moment?

I am a rabbi and mashpi’a ruchani/spiritual guide. But more important than my titles is the wondering: what is true in this moment?

I am a healer, sacred musician and deep ritualist. But more important than my abilities or talents is what arises in the “we” space, whether “we” are two, twenty or two hundred.

For your right brain:
I am song weaver and flow bender.
A mover
a baker
and home love tender. 

I am journeyer and journey
dancer and dance
speck and whole. 

Perpetual beginner and holder of lineage,
I root with the tree
and fly with the celestial serpent.

Forgetter and rememberer of truths, 

Forgetter and rememberer of truths, 

I break apart every day and am nonetheless whole, 

filling my bowl with the moment and sinking into its delicious now. 

I am player and instrument 

thesis, antithesis and synthesis
in a holographic fractal of
the Big Unknowable Picture

For your left brain:
I am currently serving as the Assistant Director of the Aleph Ordination Programs Hashpa’ah Training Program as well as assisting my teacher, Rabbi Nadya Gross, in teaching Secrets My Grandmother Told Me: A Wisdom School. Additionally, I also serve as adjunct faculty at Hebrew College as well as teaching and counseling private clients. I have led prayer and meditation and nourished souls for over a dozen years, including at Asiyah - the community I co-founded and led for five years in Somerville, MA - as well as with Nava Tehila in Jerusalem and Romemu in Manhattan. I’ve sat multiple vipassana retreats with various teachers at the Insight Meditation Society, as well as with Rabbi Alan Lew z”l, and Rabbi David Cooper z”l.

I carry smicha [ordination] as Rabbi and Mashpi’a Ruchani [Spiritual Director] in the lineage of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi ztz”l, through the ALEPH Ordination Program. I studied at Hebrew College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and the Shalom Hartman Institute along the way. I hold degrees from the University of Michigan (BA) and Indiana University (MBA) and have completed training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP).