Herbert Weiner was an ordained American Reform[1] rabbi in South Orange, New Jersey, and the author of The Wild Goats of Ein Gedi and Nine and a Half Mystics.
[2] Herbert Weiner served as the founding rabbi of Temple Israel in South Orange, New Jersey.
Weiner also recounts his experiences with Jewish groups who incorporate the mystical tradition in their religious practice.
[1][5] Weiner's writings on Jewish mysticism help shape the Neo-Hasidic impulses among some American Jews.
[6] Weiner also authored a preface to neo-Hasidic guru Reb Zalman Schachter's Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hassidism For the Aquarian Age (Leaves of Grass Press, Germantown, PA: 1975).