Aryae Coopersmith co-founded the House of Love and Prayer in 1968 with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and is ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a Jewish spiritual teacher. He is Founder & CEO of the HR Forums, whose members are Silicon Valley's human resource executives. Together with his wife Wendy Berk, he co-founded, leads, and trains others in the Torah Circle, a community based approach to studying sacred text where "the circle is the teacher."