Philip Berg

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Philip Berg

Philip Berg (* 1929 in Brooklyn , New York ; † September 16, 2013 in Los Angeles ), whose real name was Feivel Gruberger , was the founder and director of the Kabbalah Center .

Gruberger / Berg initially worked as an insurance agent and rabbi in New York. In the early 1960s he studied with Yehuda Brandwein in Israel , after whom he later named his son, Yehuda Berg . After his death in 1969 he changed his name to Philip Berg . A few years later, he left his first wife and seven children to found the first Kabbalah Center in Tel Aviv with his second wife, Karen Berg . He later moved with his family to California , where he was successful with the Kabbalah Center in Los Angeles from the 1990s. Berg died in a Los Angeles hospital on September 16, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kabbalah Center leader Rabbi Berg dies. Announcement on ynetnews.com dated September 17, 2013. Retrieved September 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruberger, Feivel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American founder and head of the Kabbalah Center
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2013
Place of death los Angeles