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by Iosef Kleiner (Author)
Author Biography
Iosef Kleiner is an Israeli rabbi, psychologist and intellectual of Argentinean origin. Throughout his 30 years of activity in the Jewish and psychological fields, he has spiritually guided synagogues in Argentina (Comunidad Hertzlía, Comunidad Israelita de Bahía Blanca), Chile (Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí de Chile), France (Union Libérale Israelite de France) and Israel (Adat Shalom - Emanuel, Moreshet Avraham). He has also performed educational functions as a teacher and lecturer, giving conferences on various Jewish topics, such as the Bible, biblical exegetes, Jewish Law, Talmud, Jewish tradition and customs, in Jewish institutions in the USA, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Sweden, France and Israel. He is currently a professor of Talmud at the A. J. Heschel Institute of Rabbinical Studies of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, coordinator of studies in Israel for rabbinical students of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and guest professor of Jewish thought at the Hebraic University of Mexico. He has developed his psychological practice in his clinic in Rehovot, Israel, as well as in the Rehovot Mental Health Service, in the Hertzog Hospital in Jerusalem and in the Abarbanel Mental Health Hospital Center in Bat Yam, where he has also given lectures on the creative personality and aggressiveness, and on the power of the word from the psychoanalytical and biblical viewpoints. He currently works at the Educational Psychology Service in Beer Yaakov and in the treatment of autistic children at the Israel Autism Treatment and Research Center. Rabbi Yosef Kleiner is married to Susana Klecki and has 3 children and two grandchildren.
