Meet the Rabbi

Roasting Rabbi founder, Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein, has been studying Jewish attitudes to food and diet as well as artisanal Kosher food since 2000.

Since then, he has worked, taught, and published articles on contemporary approaches to sustainable food sources, hands-on cooking experiences, kosher slaughter, and agricultural and farming practices in combination with Jewish values.

As a mashgiach ("kosher certifier"), he has been active “on the farm” as well as supporting the Kosher food approaches and education to various organizations.

Having visited coffee farms in Costa Rica and Tanzania, Micah began to listen to the stories of the people who worked, loved and shared in the process of creating great farms and cooperative coffees.

But not all fairly traded and organic coffees tasted good. Through these methods, Micah was still disappointed to find lower quality coffee on the market. He was inspired to begin to roast coffee on his own with help from niche taste buds among colleagues and friends in interfaith, international, and various religious settings.

As the news began to brew and the story began to percolate, Roasting Rabbi Coffee was born.