Tirzah Firestone
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- Beacon College
- Pacifica Graduate Institute
- Jungian psychotherapist
- author
- Jewish Renewal rabbi
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| Born | May 27, 1954 |
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| Relatives | Shulamith Firestone (sister) |
Tirzah Firestone (born May 27, 1954) is an American analytical psychotherapist, author, and Jewish Renewal rabbi. She is the founding rabbi of Congregation Nevei Kodesh, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in Boulder, Colorado, and is now Rabbi Emerita there.[1]
Tirzah Firestone was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in St. Louis, Missouri, as the fifth of six children born to Sol and Kate Firestone. She is the younger sister of Shulamith Firestone, and went to Hebrew day schools through high school. Firestone earned her master's degree in Holistic Counseling from Beacon College in 1982 and her doctorate in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, in 2015.[1] After graduating[where?], she spent an extended period living in Israel and working on kibbutzim Ma'ale Gilboa and Moshav Amirim. She also apprenticed in Jerusalem with Rabanit Leah Sharabi, the wife of the Kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi, who influenced her greatly.
Career
Firestone was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1992, and is a leader in the international Jewish Renewal movement.
She is widely known for her work on Jewish feminism and the modern applications of Jewish mystical wisdom. She teaches nationally on Jewish ancestral healing[vague] and the common boundary[vague] between ancient Jewish heritage and contemporary psychology.
Firestone is an active member of Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal (1994–present) and the associated Ohalah Rabbinic Association (2003–present). She is a past national co-chair of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (2009–2010), and is currently serving on the board of the Yesod Foundation (1997–present).
