About Rabbi Joshua Grossman
Rabbi Joshua Grossman has served in the South Shore area as a cantor and teacher for over twenty-five years. Now, as an ordained rabbi, those experiences will enrich and inform his spiritual leadership. Rabbi Grossman is the product of multiple generations of cantors and rabbis, beginning with training at an early age with his grandfather Cantor Harold Lew and his father Rav David Grossman. His ongoing education has been both formal and informal, including weekly study sessions with his peers, training with other rabbinical students and regular study on cantorial techniques with his brother Cantor Seth Grossman.
Rabbi Joshua attended Solomon Schechter Day School for nine years, where a strong Jewish foundation was formed. This preparation supported the necessary skills to have four separate and meaningful bar mitzvah services at the age of thirteen.
Rabbi Joshua’s cantorial journey began in Quincy, Ma. where he shared a bimah with the learned Rabbi David Jacobs (z”l) for almost ten years. That experience kindled a thirst for continuing his education and for educating others. After the loss of Rabbi Jacobs, Rabbi Joshua went on to serve as the cantor for Temple Shaare Tefilah in Norwood, Ma for the next ten years. He served for the following five years at Temple B’nai Tikvah, where the larger, more complex environment allowed him to hone his skills and diversify his experience. While serving at B’nai Tikvah, Rabbi Grossman successfully filled a number of roles from cantor, Torah reader, kita vav/zayin, Hebrew school teacher, adult education instructor and B’nai Mitzvah tutor.
In 2017, Rabbi Joshua began studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion. There he studied Jewish history, pastoral care, ancient and disturbing texts, congregational health and healing, and leadership. In continued pursuit of rabbinical ordination, Rabbi Joshua then followed in his father’s footsteps and completed his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute (JSLI). In addition to fulfilling his dream of becoming a conservative rabbi, Rabbi Joshua was recently honored in two ways by JSLI: he was invited to return as guest lecturer in future sessions and he was the only member of his graduating class to be invited to present at JSLI’s annual retreat.
Rabbi Joshua Grossman is committed to inclusive, egalitarian liturgical and text-based services. His experience, his passion for learning, and his commitment to community will both support and enhance services, life cycle events, educational programming and other congregational activities in the years ahead.
Rabbi Joshua attended Solomon Schechter Day School for nine years, where a strong Jewish foundation was formed. This preparation supported the necessary skills to have four separate and meaningful bar mitzvah services at the age of thirteen.
Rabbi Joshua’s cantorial journey began in Quincy, Ma. where he shared a bimah with the learned Rabbi David Jacobs (z”l) for almost ten years. That experience kindled a thirst for continuing his education and for educating others. After the loss of Rabbi Jacobs, Rabbi Joshua went on to serve as the cantor for Temple Shaare Tefilah in Norwood, Ma for the next ten years. He served for the following five years at Temple B’nai Tikvah, where the larger, more complex environment allowed him to hone his skills and diversify his experience. While serving at B’nai Tikvah, Rabbi Grossman successfully filled a number of roles from cantor, Torah reader, kita vav/zayin, Hebrew school teacher, adult education instructor and B’nai Mitzvah tutor.
In 2017, Rabbi Joshua began studies at the Academy for Jewish Religion. There he studied Jewish history, pastoral care, ancient and disturbing texts, congregational health and healing, and leadership. In continued pursuit of rabbinical ordination, Rabbi Joshua then followed in his father’s footsteps and completed his rabbinical studies at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute (JSLI). In addition to fulfilling his dream of becoming a conservative rabbi, Rabbi Joshua was recently honored in two ways by JSLI: he was invited to return as guest lecturer in future sessions and he was the only member of his graduating class to be invited to present at JSLI’s annual retreat.
Rabbi Joshua Grossman is committed to inclusive, egalitarian liturgical and text-based services. His experience, his passion for learning, and his commitment to community will both support and enhance services, life cycle events, educational programming and other congregational activities in the years ahead.