Tirzah Firestone

Tirzah Firestone is a prominent Jewish Renewal rabbi, as well as an author of books on female figures in Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah, a Jungian psychotherapist, and spiritual leader of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in Boulder, Colorado. She is the founding rabbi of the Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder.^[1] Tirzah is the younger sister of the feminist writer Shulamith Firestone.^[2]

Tirzah Firestone was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Missouri, and earned her Masters Degree in Holistic Counseling from Beacon College in 1982; in November, 1992, she was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, Rabbi Shoshana Leibowitz and Rabbi Akiva Mann.^[3]

Before returning to Judaism, Firestone practiced Kundalini yoga, lived with a Hindu community, and explored radical philosophies such as Arica and Christian mysticism.^[4]

Publications

Books:

• The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom (Harper San Francisco)
• With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith (Plume)

CDs:

• "With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith" (Plume)
• "ASHREYNU! (HOW LUCKY WE ARE!) Jewish Chants for Meditation and Prayer" with Lisa Antosofsky, and Sheldon Sands.^[5]
• "The Woman's Kabbalah"

References