Haviva Ner-David, author of Hope Valley
Episode 59, Apr 15, 2021, 04:07 PM
Haviva Ner-David is an ordained rabbi and interfaith-interspiritual minister, with a doctorate in philosophy and an M.F.A in Creative Writing. She runs Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul, where she officiates ritual immersion ceremonies and offers group workshops. A certified spiritual director with a specialty in dreamwork, she works with individuals and couples. Rabbi Ner-David is the author of two published spiritual journey memoirs and has a third, Dreaming Against the Current: A Rabbi’s Soul Journey, on the way. She is also the author of a guidebook for engaged couples. Hope Valley is her debut novel. Rabbi Ner-David is involved in peace work, promoting shared living among Jews, Christians and Muslims in Galilee, where she lives with Jacob, her life partner of thirty years, their seven children and their dog and cat. She also lives with a genetic degenerative muscular disease called FSHD, which has been one of her greatest teachers.