Mike Comins

Rabbi Mike Comins is the founder of TorahTrek Spiritual Wilderness

Adventures (www.TorahTrek.com) and the author of A Wild Faith: Jewish

Ways into Wilderness, Wilderness Ways into Judaism (Jewish Lights;

www.awildfaith.com). A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of UCLA,

Rabbi Comins made aliyah and lived in Israel for fifteen years. He studied

classical Jewish texts at the Pardes Institute, earned his MA in Jewish

education from Hebrew University, and was ordained in the Israeli rabbinical

program of Hebrew Union College. He was a founding member

and the first director of education at Kehilat Kol Haneshama in

Jerusalem. Finding his calling in life, Rabbi Comins became a licensed

Israeli desert guide and led Ruach HaMidbar desert trips in Israel and

the Sinai. He participated in the Mindfulness Leadership Training program

at Elat Chayyim, the Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, the first rabbinical

cohort of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and the Kol Zimra:

Chant Leader's Professional Development program. He founded

TorahTrek while serving the Jewish Community of Jackson Hole,

Wyoming. Currently, Rabbi Comins lives, teaches, and writes in Los

Angeles; he leads TorahTrek programs and serves as a scholar-in-residence

around the country.