Rabbi Dr. Jill Hammer, author, scholar, ritualist, poet, dreamworker and midrashist, is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and the director of learning and ritual at Beit Kohenet, a house of Jewish, mystical, earth-based, feminist seeking (beitkohenet.org). She is the author of Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreaming, 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 (with Taya Shere), The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons, The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women, and The Book of Earth and Other Mysteries. Her novel is called The Moonstone Covenant. She is also the author of academic articles, essays, and poems. She is the translator of The Romemu Siddur and of Siddur haKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook.  She has written a children’s book, The Garden of Time. Rabbi Hammer lives in Manhattan with her family.

Professor, Full-Time, Spirituality and Midrash

Education:

PhD, Social Psychology, University of Connecticut; Rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary; BA, Brandeis University

Publications:

Jill is the author of Sisters at Sinai: New Tales of Biblical Women (2001), The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Season (2006), the Omer Calendar of Biblical Women (2012), The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women’s Spiritual Leadership (2015), The Book of Earth and Other Mysteries (2016), Return to the Place: The Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah (2020), and Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams (2022), The Moonstone Covenant (2024), Siddur haKohanot: The Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook (2025)  The Omer Calendar of Biblical Women, 2nd ed. (2025), The Field Guide to the Jewish Otherworld (in press).