Rabbi Yonatan Gorin became the rabbi of Congregation Etz Chaim in 2018. He is originally from the Greater Washington DC area. He spent nearly a decade in intensive study in yeshiva; primarily in Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, MD where he received Semicha as well as a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Talmudic Law. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's Degree in Business Administration at Touro University Worldwide. 

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Rabbi Gorin has formal training in healthcare chaplaincy, completing four units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Hebrew SeniorLife; Newbridge-on-the-Charles, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

 

Rabbi Gorin also has a passion for music and is a multi-instrumentalist.

 

His wife, Alison is an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner. They are blessed with three children, Yehudis, Shoshana and Tzvi.