Rabbi Jill Hammer

Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, author, scholar, ritualist, poet, dreamworker and midrashist, is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and the Director of Learning and Ritual at Beit Kohenet, a house of Jewish, mystical, earth-based, feminist seeking. Her new novel is called The Moonstone Covenant, and she is also the author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreaming, Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah, The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership (with Taya Shere), The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, and The Book of Earth and Other Mysteries. She is the author of many essays, poems, and articles, and is the translator of The Romemu Siddur and of Siddur haKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook. She has written a children’s book, The Garden of Time. Rabbi Hammer was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received a PhD in social psychology from the University of Connecticut. She lives in Manhattan with her family.

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