Rabbi Mel Glazer, DD, DMIN, received his Ordination and Doctor of Divinity degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Ministry Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. A congregational rabbi with more than 35 years experience, Rabbi Mel Glazer is a prominent GriefRecovery® specialist certified and trained by the GriefRecovery® Institute.

Rabbi Mel Glazer has counseled, lectured, and conducted workshops in the interfaith community across the United States and Canada and has contributed articles and chapters to theological and general interest publications and books. His work has been featured on TV, radio, and the Internet, and he wrote a monthly column, "Your Grief Matters," for the Pocono Record in Stroudsburg, PA. Rabbi Mel lives with his wife Ellen in Colorado Springs, CO, where he is the Rabbi at Temple Shalom.

“The scariest three words on any gift package are "some assembly required." Judaism is a gift-- God's gift to us and to the world. There is some assembly required. If you do not help God assemble your gift, that gift will be wasted."

“When I was a child, I took piano lessons and my teacher wanted me to become a symphony director. She died before I could tell her that that's what being a Rabbi is all about. Everyone has a place in God's orchestra and I am the conductor."

“The key to helping people is to have experienced life myself. How can I counsel anyone at all if I don't know what you're talking about? I have lived a full life, with successes and failures, simcha and sadness. I get great satisfaction from helping people recover from losses. My father's death was a gift to me. It helped to propel me in a direction, it led me on a fruitful and joyful path -- helping people to celebrate again after losing someone, or something, very special.”

“Glazer’s First and Only Law of Life—we only learn anything about ourselves by how we respond to the
losses in our lives.”