Many Jews are searching for models of embodied women's spiritual leadership. Looking deeply into our ancient tradition, we find thirteen archetypes of women serving, nurturing and strengthening spiritual community through embodied, ecstatic and earth-centered practice.
Kohenet, the Hebrew word meaning priestess, signifies both spiritual leadership and embodiment of and service to the Divine. The Kohenet Training Intensive seeks to revitalize the Jewish connection with the Divine feminine and to reclaim the ancient role of women as facilitators of sacred experience.
Drawing on legends and mystical teachings from the Jewish tradition, Near Eastern myth, and women's wisdom across the generations, the Kohenet training innovates uniquely feminine models of Jewish spiritual leadership, cultivating a network of women devoted to serving the Shechinah through weaving traditional Jewish practice with the emerging and evolving needs of Jews, women and the planet as a whole.
Kohenet Training and Ordination
In the Kohenet trainings, we examine models of the Divine feminine from the Bible, kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), and goddess myths as well as the ritual, liturgy, and poetry of modern Jewish women in order to create a new vision of communal leadership unifying sacred space, time, and spirit. Leading toward Kohenet ordination, the intensive focuses on creative projects, deeper learning, and spiritual and life-cycle ritual facilitation skills.
This intensive is sponsored by the Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center as well as by Kohenet: The Hebrew Priestess Institute.
For additional information contact us or visit Isabella Freedman’s website, for additional logistical details about the training.
