Tirzah Firestone is an author, a Jungian psychotherapist, and a rabbi. She has been a leader in the international Jewish Renewal movement and a scholar and teacher widely known for her groundbreaking work on Kabbalah, depth psychology, intergenerational trauma healing, and the re-integration of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism. She lectures and teaches about how harvesting ancestral wisdom can help us at what she considers a critical time in world history. Her books include With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey Into the Heart of Her Faith; The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom; and her most recent, Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma, which combines research in depth psychology, neuroscience, and collective traumatology. We dove into the little-known treasures of Jewish mysticism and the spiritual implications of intergenerational trauma.

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