Moish Geller

Rabbi (?) Geller (who walks in the footsteps of Shlomo Carlebach and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi) is so friendly that he's frightening.

People love him or hate him.

Orthodox anarchist Dan ‘Mobius’ Sieradski describes him as "beloved."

A former follower of the Grateful Dead, he goes to hippie gathering around the world and reaches out to Jews and encourages them to move to Israel.

Moish has a following in the Nachlaot (Carlebach aka Happy Minyan aka neo-hasidic) crowd.

Geller's blog is called "NotJustAnotherRabbi."

Geller blogged Dec. 18, 2006:

The leaders and teachers of the Coming World are those that are already plugged into it and are learning about it by striving to live as if it was already here. They do it because they have already been ‘stricken’ with the prophetic famine. For this is a Torah that begins where all that most know from the Holy Books, ends. And within the Chosen People, there must be Ones Chosen to take the Nation and the World the last steps to the Great Day and Beyond.

So Here It Is:

On this day, the beginning of my 55th year of this life, I take the first step to make the outrageous statement, that I am one of those Chosen. And that this year is the beginning of my coming out party. Note of caution and disclaimer: I am light years from being a finished product. I am light years from being a model of the all the truths I know or anywhere near close to being a perfect or whole and balanced manifester of those truths. But it’s time for me to once again test high failure so as to create high successes. I am confident I will accomplish both.

On February 9, 2006, Geller blogged on RadicalTorah about "Shedding Light in a Dark World."

Geller grew up in Queens under the spell of Meir Kahane (in his pre-Kach days) and Shlomo Carlebach.

Moish never got anywhere with his own life and spent many years living in his parents basement.

In his late 30s, he suddenly got into the Grateful Dead, traveling around the country playing elder hippie guru. He then re-found Orthodox Judaism, flew to Israel, and became a Carlebach impersonator.

Geller hung around Bat Ayin for a while, I'm told, but was sent away from there, and has been hanging around Nahlaot, where he got terribly fat and sickly, and in the absence of any thinkers or leaders, Moish fills the Gafni, Neo-Carlebach, New Age Hippie, etc, void.

Moish tries to scrape together money through donations, etc, to live. I don’t think he’s held a job in his life. He thinks of himself as a force for “kiruv” (outreach) at Rainbow coalition type activities, and now is putting out his writings for public consumption, calling himself a rabbi.