Sarah Chandler, aka Kohenet Shamirah, is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Jewish educator, ritualist, artist, activist and poet. Currently, she serves as the program director of Romemu Yeshiva and a garden educator with Grow Torah. A trainer with Ta’amod, she supports Jewish nonprofits in harassment prevention through designing and maintaining respectful workplaces. She teaches, writes and consults on issues related to Jewish earth-based spiritual practice, farming and mindfulness. Ordained as a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) in 2015, she is studying as a shamanic healer apprentice at the Wisdom School of S.O.P.H.I.A., in addition to Kabbalistic imaginal dream work at the School of Images.
Azazel: עזאזל; entire removal [of sin and guilt from sacred places into desert on back of goat, symbolic of entire forgiveness] Brown-Driver-Briggs Dictionary, 736 The