Tirzah Firestone

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.

Early life and education 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. The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom (Harper San Francisco, 2003) With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith (Plume, 1999)

Articles

"Intergenerational Trauma and the Patriarchy," published in Tikkun Magazine, Spring 2019. "War and Peace: Intertwining Threads in the Jewish Tradition," in The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Lester Kurtz, Ed., Routledge Press, 2018. "Trauma Legacies in the Middle East", published in Tikkun Magazine, 2014, 29 (3): 6–10. "The Jewish Cultural Complex," published in Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, Vol 57, No 3, August, 2014. "At the Altar of Consciousness: The Individuation of God and Abraham", published in Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought, Volume 56, 2013. “Transforming Our Stories Through Midrash”, in New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future, edited by Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2009. “Flatbread in Feeble Times”, in The Women’s Seder Sourcebook: Rituals and Readings for Use at the Passover Seder, Edited by Anisfeld, Mohr & Spector, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, VT, 2003.

CDs "Ashreynu! (How Lucky We Are!) Jewish Chants for Meditation and Prayer" with Lisa Antosofsky, and Sheldon Sands. "The Woman's Kabbalah: Ecstatic Jewish Practices for Women", Sounds True, Boulder, Colorado, 2000.