Aryae Coopersmith, author of Holy Beggars: A Journey from Haight Street to Jerusalem, a memoir from inside the 1960s San Francisco spiritual revolution, co-founded Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach’s House of Love and Prayer in 1968. In his professional life he is Founder & CEO of the HR Forums, whose members are Silicon Valley’s human resource executives. In recognition of his lifetime of Jewish teaching and service, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has ordained him as a Jewish spiritual teacher.