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HASHPA'AH PATH: FACULTY
About Our…
ROSH HASHPA’AH
Rabbi Shohama Wiener, DMin, EdM, serves as Rosh Hashpa’ah for the ALEPH Ordination Programs, President Emerita of AJR, The Academy for Jewish Religion, and ALEPH’S director of the new joint D.Min. in Spiritual Direction program between New York Theological Seminary and ALEPH. Her smicha as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi moved her to provide hashpa'ah at AJR, and to design a model Hashpa'ah training program in her doctoral thesis at NY Theological Seminary, a program now realized in HASHPA’AH, the ALEPH Ordination Program in Jewish Spiritual Direction. Also a teacher of meditation and healing, songwriter and editor of The Fifty-Eighth Century: A Jewish Renewal Sourcebook. “Reb Shohama” serves as Rabbi for Temple Beth-El of City Island, NY, “Your Shul by the Sea,” and heads the Spiritual Guidance site at ReclaimingJudaism.org. She is the honoree of, and contributor to, the volume edited by Rabbi Goldie Milgram titled Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction (Reclaiming Judaism Press 2009).
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & YOETZET
Rabbi Nadya Gross is Co-Project Director of Ruach Ha'Aretz and Co-Rabbi of Pardes Levavot, a Jewish renewal congregation in Boulder, CO. “Reb Nadya” was trained from childhood in the Jewish mystical tradition, by her Israeli grandmother, and now transmits the teachings in a two-year wisdom school program. She has been a teacher of Kaballah and meditation for more than 20 years, and is guided by our wisdom tradition and Reb Zalman's teaching in her private practice as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit - which focuses on individuals, couples, and clergy. She recently co-founded the Center for Spiritual Friendship in Boulder - an interfaith center for hashpa'ah in many forms. She also joined the ALEPH Sage-ing faculty, bringing her extensive experience with end-of-life care to the new mentorship training program.
MASHPI’IM AND FACULTY
Sandra B. Cohen, DSW, LCSW, has a private psycho-spiritual clinical and relationship coaching practice. “Reb Sarah” is a Spiritual Director at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and for the ALEPH Ordination Programs as well as core faculty for the HASHPA’AH Ordination Program. She privately provides individual and interfaith group spiritual direction and mentors individuals and clergy called to this ministry. She trained in Group Spiritual Direction at The Shalem Institute and received smicha from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit, Maggidah, and “Reb Sarah.” She is available for private Supervision for Spiritual Directors.
Shulamit Kate Fagan has smicha from ALEPH as a Rabbinic Pastor, Chaplain and Mashpi'ah Ruchanit. She serves as founding Director of ALEPH's Rabbinic Pastor Program and hospital chaplain, as well as a spiritual director in private practice. Shulamit is a master storyteller, and teaches widely on pastoral care and end-of-life issues. See www.spiritualwell.com
Rabbi Burt Jacobson, MHL, is Founding Rabbi of Kehilla Community Synagogue in Berkeley, begun in 1984. He was instrumental in the design of the new God-centered curriculum for the Aleph Rabbinic Program, and has been involved in the discipline of spiritual direction for over twenty years. Rabbi Burt completed his training as a spiritual director at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA in 1995. Since then he has been pioneering the introduction of spiritual direction into Jewish life.
Rabbi Shaya Isenberg, PhD, is Professor of Religion Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he taught Jewish mysticism, comparative spirituality and science. He is co-founder and co-director of UF’s Center for Spirituality and Health. An author and national lecturer, he teaches workshops on self-development and relationships, and Jewish mysticism and meditation, “Reb Shaya” serves as Rabbi for P’nai Or of Gainesville, FL.
Rabbi Raachel Jurovics, PhD, earned a smicha as Mashpi’ah Ruchanit from Rabbi Zalman-Schachter Shalomi, and conducts a private practice focusing on the spiritual needs of clergy. “Reb Raachel” also serves Temple Beth Or, a Reform congregation in Raleigh, NC as Rabbi Sheni.
Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan teaches classes and workshops on prayer, on creating an intimate relationships with the Divine, and on connecting to G*d through joy. In addition to being a mother of four, “Reb Ruth” is a song and prayer leader, and founder of congregation Nava Tehila in Jerusalem. A native Israeli, she has an international practice as a Mashpi’ah.
David Daniel Klipper was ordained as a Rabbinic Pastor by ALEPH in 2007 and as a Mashpia Ruchani in 2009. He serves as an ACPE Supervisor Candidate and Staff Chaplain at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, CT and leads meditative services for a variety of congregations. Additionally, he specializes in training clergy to work with addiction issues.
Rabbi Goldie Milgram, DMin, MSW, travels internationally and works via Skype and telephone as an empowering mashpi'ah, teacher and collector of Jewish spiritual teachings from, and for, colleagues and communities. Goldie directs ReclaimingJudaism.org and in 2009 founded Reclaiming Judaism Press and edited it's first release: Seeking and Soaring: Jewish Approaches to Spiritual Direction in honor of Rabbi Shohama Wiener. While serving as Dean of Professional Development at AJR, Goldie designed and offered the first formal seminary class training clergy in Hashpa'ah as a complement to Rabbi Wiener's long-standing group and individual hashpa'ah sessions with the students. “Reb Goldie” also serves on the faculty of the ALEPH Ordination Programs.
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel is a poet and mystic through whom song and inspiration flow. She has recorded seven albums of original liturgical music. In 1982, she was the first woman to receive the title,"Eshet Hazon"/Woman of Vision and Midwife of the Soul. She has helped to build and sustain communities in Vancouver, BC, Hanover, NH, and Boston, MA. In addition to serving as a Mashpi’ah Ruchanit, she is a Soul Memory Facilitator and a Savta (Grandmother).
Rabbi Shawn Israel Zevit, MHL, was a Spiritual Director at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College for 10 years. Currently he is on the core HASHPA’AH faculty for ALEPH, and serves as a consultant and trainer for numerous organizations and congregations. Since 1998, he has been the Director of Outreach and Tikkun Olam for the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, and Co-Director of the Davenning Leaders’ Training Institute. A graduate of the Integrated Kabbalistic Healing program, “Reb Shawn” is also a published author and singer/songwriter, and has recorded five CD's of spiritual music (www.rabbizevit.com).
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