Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man is a writer, religious guide and spiritual counselor.

He is founder of Metivta: a center for contemplative Judaism, which is dedicated to the renewal of the Jewish wisdom tradition and to the deepening of personal religious quest. Metivta is a continuation of Jonathan Omer-Man's life-long work as a guide and mentor to Jews who feel that their Judaic religious and spiritual needs have not been met within the traditional forms available to them.

He has lectured at universities, colleges, and seminaries throughout the United States. In 1990 he visited the Dalai Lama in India, a journey that was described in Rodger Kamenetz’ best-selling book, The Jew in the Lotus. His work and ideas are also described in some detail in Kamenetz' most recent work, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters.

For more than 25 years Jonathan Omer-Man lived in Jerusalem, where he worked and studied with some of the greatest contemporary Jewish teachers -- including Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Professor Gershom Scholem --, and was editor and publisher of Shefa Quarterly, a prestigious journal of Jewish thought and study. He was also revising editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Among his published writings are numerous articles about spirituality and mysticism in the Jewish tradition, and some verse and fiction.