Max Zev Reynolds is a Queens-based writer, rabbi, and board certified palliative care chaplain. His areas of interest include: trauma-informed palliative and end-of-life care; spiritual direction with atheists, agnostics, and non-religious mystics; trauma and moral injury; the integration of disability and transformative justice practices in spiritual care; TGNC existential and spiritual care; the role of ritual in healing and justice work. He has been a Mussar (a Jewish ethical tradition) practitioner since 2009.
Max is currently studying spiritual direction through the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. He holds an MA in Hebrew Arts and Letters from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, an MA in Philosophy of Religion from Union Theological Seminary, and a BA in Theology and Religious Studies from Seattle University.
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