Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman has been involved in Jewish education for over thirty-five years. As a founding member of Moshav Mevo Modiim in 1976, he went on to be director at the moshav s Center of Jewish Education, which successfully ran programs for over five thousand participants from over twenty-five countries a year. In 1988 he took the position of regional director of NCSY in Denver, Colorado, where he and his wife created a new region. He returned to Israel in 1995 and currently serves as the director of Ohr Chadash: New Horizons in Jewish Experience, which he founded with his wife. Rabbi Trugman is the author of Seeds and Sparks: Inspiration and Self-Expression through the Cycles of Jewish Life, The Mystical Power of Music, The Mystical Meaning of Dreams, Secrets of the Magen David, The Mystical Nature of Light, Return Again: The Dynamics of Reincarnation, Orchard of Delights and Shivim Panim (in Hebrew); and has published articles and poems in a wide variety of publications. He has also produced five CDs of original music: Strings of the Soul, Modeh Ani, From World to World, Symphony of the Spirit and Merkavah. He appears at Shabbat programs and lectures extensively worldwide.
