Aleph's Ordination Programs
Our Seminary is designed for people called to spiritual leadership in a rapidly changing world.
These low-residency, retreat-based pathways combine rigorous scholarship, spiritual formation, mentorship, embodied practice, and transformative community.
Students emerge not only trained but transformed.
Who It's For
For those who feel called to:
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Serve Jewish communities creatively and compassionately
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Lead prayer, ritual, and spiritual life
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Teach Jewish wisdom deeply and accessibly
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Guide others through healing, transition, and transformation
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Integrate spirituality, justice, ecology, and tradition
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What the Journey Feels Like
Part seminary.
Part retreat.
Part spiritual movement.
Students describe Aleph as one of the few places where scholarship and soulfulness fully meet.
Tracks & Pathways
Training rabbis to be community builders, teachers, spiritual leaders and artists of Jewish tradition. The rigorous curriculum engages our dynamic faculty and student body in the full spectrum of rabbinic learning and practice.
Cultivating mastery of Jewish liturgy and inspired leadership of prayer grounded in traditional nusach and hazzanut, Ashkenazi and Sephardi/Mizrachi musical traditions, skilled musicianship, sophisticated Jewish literacy and pastoral training.
For those whose spiritual gifts draw them to serve in fields often associated with the pastoral dimension of rabbinic work, this program stresses rigorous mentorship and a curriculum of pastoral counseling, spiritual direction, chaplaincy and liturgical skills.
A two-year training program for clergy and lay leaders leading to a Certificate of Completion as Spiritual Director, and for clergy an advanced ordination as Mashpia Ruchani.
