Rabbi Natan Margalit, Ph.D.

Interim Dean of Faculty, Chair of the Rabbinic Texts Department, Director of the Earth-Based Judaism Program, Director of Studies, and a Member of the Academic VAAD.

Rabbi Natan (he/him) founded the non-profit Organic Torah offering courses in text-based environmentalism. Rabbi Natan is a Talmudic scholar bringing environmental, systems theory and nonduality to Torah study. He recently authored The Pearl and the Flame: A Journey into Jewish Wisdom and Ecological Thinking. He was ordained in Jerusalem in 1990 and earned a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley, 2001. He has taught at Bard College, RRC, and Hebrew College Rabbinical School. He lives in Newton, MA with his wife, two sons and dog.