Wikipedia's article on Philip Berg, read directly for this pass, which states he was born Shraga Feivel Gruberger on 20 August 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, was ordained a rabbi in 1951, helped establish the National Institute for the Research in Kabbalah in New York in 1965, renamed it The Research Centre of Kabbalah in 1970, married Karen Mulnich in 1971 and worked with her to expand Kabbalistic teaching beyond Orthodox circles to secular Jews, non-Jews and women, suffered a stroke in 2004 after which Karen helped lead the organization, and died 16 September 2013 aged eighty six, buried in Safed, Israel.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berg
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