Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion and the co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute. She is the author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams, Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah, The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership, The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, and other works.
A genuinely egalitarian religious tradition can only exist when we consciously work to include voices that have been excluded, from the ancient world forward.