{"id":759,"date":"2021-02-02T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/?page_id=759"},"modified":"2023-07-24T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:18:11","slug":"rabbi-haviva","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rabbihaviva.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Haviva"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rabbi Haviva Ner-David<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Haviva Ner-David is a writer and rabbi. In 2006 she became the first woman to publicly receive Orthodox rabbinic ordination, only to leave Orthodoxy and call herself a post-denominational rabbi. Ten years later, she received interfaith ordination from the One Spirit Interfaith-Interspiritual Seminary and now goes by post-denominational inter-spiritual rabbi.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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She writes both fiction and non-fiction and is the author of three spiritual journey memoirs, two\u00a0novels, a children’s book, short stories, essays, a blog on\u00a0Times of Israel<\/i>, scholarly articles and a guidebook for engaged couples due out in 2024. Her short story, \u201cBlame,\u201d won the 2016\u00a0Lilith Magazine<\/i> short fiction contest.
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Her rabbinic specialties are spiritual companionship, water immersion rituals, wedding and marriage preparation, coming of age ceremonies and other ritual and ceremony creation and innovation. Founding rabbi of <\/span>Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul<\/span><\/i> on Kibbutz Hannaton in the Lower Galilee, she officiates and helps create on-site personalized immersion ritual ceremonies and facilitates group mikveh workshops. As a spiritual companion, she works with individuals and couples and specializes in\u00a0<\/span>*dreamwork, inner child work and nature soul work, as well as general sacred listening.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Interview:<\/strong> Rabbi Haviva on the Jewish Women\u2019s Archive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ordained as both a rabbi and an interfaith minister<\/span>, Haviva is also a certified spiritual companion with special training in dreamwork, inner child work and nature soul work. A strong believer in following the heart and living from the soul to create one\u2019s unique spiritual journey, Haviva works with individuals and couples, including but not only many rabbis and rabbinical students.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Haviva is the founding rabbi of\u00a0Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>on Kibbutz Hannaton, where she officiates and helps clients create individualized full body ritual immersion ceremonies and facilitates group workshops<\/span>. Shmaya<\/em> is the only mikveh (ritual immersion pool) in Israel open to everyone to immerse when and as they choose.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Rabbi Haviva is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her books include two published spiritual journey memoirs and one on the way, a book to help prepare couples for their marriage and wedding, and one novel.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Rabbi Haviva Ner-David Haviva Ner-David is a writer and rabbi. In 2006 she became the first woman to publicly receive Orthodox rabbinic ordination, only to leave Orthodoxy and call herself a post-denominational rabbi. Ten years later, she received interfaith ordination from the One Spirit Interfaith-Interspiritual Seminary and now goes by post-denominational inter-spiritual rabbi. 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