Gershon Winkler Bio

http://www.walkingstick.org/

Gershon Winkler is both a renowned scholar as well as a rabbinic trickster. He has authored eleven books, including seven works on Jewish mysticism, philosophy, and folklore, and was initiated in 1978 by the late kabbalist Rabbi Eliezer Benseon of Jerusalem. For the past twenty years he has lived very close to the earth in remote wilderness regions and currently resides at the Walking Stick Retreat Center as its caretaker. Gershon’s personal draw to wilderness living has brought him to a fresh gleaning of rich Hebraic teachings about the attributes and powers of fauna and flora. Rabbi Winkler flavors his teaching-style with hefty doses of humor, storytelling, ceremonies, and chanting. The Jerusalem Post recently described him as “a blend of Robin Williams and the Baal Shem Tov.”