D’vorah Grenn, Ph.D is a Yoreshet, lineage-holder of a female Kabbalist tradition, a Kohenet/priestess, and ordained Mashpi’ah/spiritual life coach and guide. She founded The Lilith Institute, A Center for Feminist Spirituality (1997), co-directed the Women & Spirituality MA Program at ITP/Sofia University, and was a founding theorist of the Kohenet priestess movement, serving on their Founding Advisory Board. She created and taught in her Institute’s Women’s Leadership Program and has taught for a number of colleges and synagogues on feminist thealogy and philosophies, women’s history, sacred arts, literature, Jewish mysticism. She taught Humanities and Philosophy classes at Napa Valley College, co-teaches an annual course on the Tree of Life with Yerusha’s Rabbi Nadya Gross, and serves on the Aquarian Minyan’s Education Advisory Board.
One of D’vorah’s favorite subjects to teach is Jewish Magic & Folklore, and she will be teaching a course through Yerusha on December 10th, and December 17th, we’ve posted the link in the show notes for this episode.
Her publications include:Lilith’s Fire; Talking to Goddess, an anthology of writings from 72 women in 25 traditions; “Lilith’s Fire: Examining Original Sources of Power”, Feminist Theology Journal; Jewish priestess and Lilith entries in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions; “Spiritual Brokenness and Healing Presence of the Sacred Feminine”, FEMSPEC feminist journal. She has been a guest on podcasts including this one, as wellas the Revelation Podcast Project and Breaking Down Patriarchy, and co-created and co-hosted 50 episodes of the “Tending Lilith’s Fire” broadcast with Kohenet Annie Matan.
SUPPORT: To take D’vorah’s Jewish Magic and Folklore class,register at yerusha.org.
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To purchase D’vorah’s books visit lilithinstitute.com or you can purchase "What Would Lilith Do?" T-shirts and other merch at redbubble.com/shop/ap/84226530
FOLLOW: You can find D’vorah online at lilithinstitute.com or @lilithinstitute on Instagram and facebook.com/idvorah99 on Facebook
LISTEN: Listen to the past recordings of Priestessingthe Priestesses at youtube.com/@tendinglilithsfire