BIO
Rabbi Marc Philippe is the founder of Kodesh House, a grassroots Jewish Spiritual Community in Miami Beach. His work reaches throughout the entire city: he counsels and coaches people in offices, people's homes and online about spirituality, helping them navigate through emotional issues. He also teaches and organizes programs in a variety of venues.
Rabbi Marc Philippe received smicha from Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem, also known as Diaspora Yeshiva. He has been a citizen of the world since childhood, having grown up on four continents.
He earned his Masters degree at the prestigious Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and later received a second degree at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel. Simultaneously, he studied at the Institutions Talmudiques Yeshiva Yad Mordechai. Rabbi Philippe honed his cantorial skills at the Consistoire Israélite de Paris. He also worked as a conductor for the Chœur et Orchestre Philharmonique Européen, Orchestre Paris Pops and the Orchestre de I’lle de la Cité.
Rabbi Marc Philippe’s history in America is no less distinguished. While working at B’nai Torah as Chazzan Sheini, he became the founder of the Jewish Symphony in Boca Raton. He then served as Cantor and Education Director for Beth El Congregation in Phoenix and later for Congregation B’nai Zion in El Paso. His sojourn in the Southwest resulted in his creating The Judaic Cultural Orchestra, which performed fundraising concerts for ARMDI and Hadassah. He was also a Chaplain for the Arizona Department of Corrections in Phoenix and the Detention Bureau for El Paso, TX, where he offered counseling, taught classes and led religious services. He is currently a member of both the Chevra Kadisha of Miami and the Board of Mishkan Miami, the Jewish Chaplaincy Program of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
Beyond his role as a spiritual leader, Rabbi Philippe is a public speaker, chaplain, cantor, musician, composer and conductor. He is a practitioner of Jewish meditation as well as a certified hypnotist with a particular interest in past-life regression. At Kodesh House, Rabbi Marc Philippe and his wife Valerie host large, home cooked Shabbat dinners, classes, meditations, musical programs and other Jewish related events in their home and garden on a regular basis.
Rabbi Marc Philippe received smicha from Yeshiva Toras Israel in Jerusalem, also known as Diaspora Yeshiva. He has been a citizen of the world since childhood, having grown up on four continents.
He earned his Masters degree at the prestigious Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and later received a second degree at the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel. Simultaneously, he studied at the Institutions Talmudiques Yeshiva Yad Mordechai. Rabbi Philippe honed his cantorial skills at the Consistoire Israélite de Paris. He also worked as a conductor for the Chœur et Orchestre Philharmonique Européen, Orchestre Paris Pops and the Orchestre de I’lle de la Cité.
Rabbi Marc Philippe’s history in America is no less distinguished. While working at B’nai Torah as Chazzan Sheini, he became the founder of the Jewish Symphony in Boca Raton. He then served as Cantor and Education Director for Beth El Congregation in Phoenix and later for Congregation B’nai Zion in El Paso. His sojourn in the Southwest resulted in his creating The Judaic Cultural Orchestra, which performed fundraising concerts for ARMDI and Hadassah. He was also a Chaplain for the Arizona Department of Corrections in Phoenix and the Detention Bureau for El Paso, TX, where he offered counseling, taught classes and led religious services. He is currently a member of both the Chevra Kadisha of Miami and the Board of Mishkan Miami, the Jewish Chaplaincy Program of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
Beyond his role as a spiritual leader, Rabbi Philippe is a public speaker, chaplain, cantor, musician, composer and conductor. He is a practitioner of Jewish meditation as well as a certified hypnotist with a particular interest in past-life regression. At Kodesh House, Rabbi Marc Philippe and his wife Valerie host large, home cooked Shabbat dinners, classes, meditations, musical programs and other Jewish related events in their home and garden on a regular basis.
The B'nai Anusim
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Rabbi Philippe has participated in the conferences focused on the B’nai Anusim (Crypto-Jews), has developed close friendships with them, and has prepared some of the first teenagers who returned to Judaism for their Bar Mitzvahs. Recently he was in Nicaragua as part of the bet din for the conversion of 114 people, mostly B'nai Anusim.
The B'nai Anusim (Crypto-Jews), or Conversos (previously known as "Marranos"), are the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and ultimately expelled from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition 500 years ago. Many were tortured or killed. |
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In the 17th century, the B'nai Anusim hoped to secretly practice their religion away from Spain and Portugal. They sailed to Mexico as colonizers, eventually settling in the remote mountains of New Mexico, far from the grasp of Spanish authorities and the Inquisition.
Over the centuries, knowledge of their heritage faded. But a few still clung to some forms of Judaism through symbols and rites. In the last two decades, however, many B'nai Anusim have discovered their Jewish roots and have become passionate about the Jewish heritage that was taken from them for so long.
Over the centuries, knowledge of their heritage faded. But a few still clung to some forms of Judaism through symbols and rites. In the last two decades, however, many B'nai Anusim have discovered their Jewish roots and have become passionate about the Jewish heritage that was taken from them for so long.