Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Jonnie Schnytzer

Dr Jonnie Schnytzer is a Senior Lecturer at the Multidisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University and director of the center’s Cramim program for excellence. His courses include Judaism in an Ecological Context: The Good, the Bad & the Kabbalist, and Kabbalah, Science Fiction and the Metaverse. He is currently publishing Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi’s Commentary on Sefer Yesira, with Oxford University Press.

Dina Etigson

Dina Etigson teaches Chasidut, spirituality, and Jewish law in Tiferet, Machon Maayan and the Nexus program. She focuses strongly on experiential learning, works with others to lead workshops that create supportive and open environments where women can explore healing and renewal through Torah and a range of creative practices.

Dr Biti Roi

Dr. Biti Roi is an Israeli scholar of Kabbala, Chasidut, and Jewish philosophy, and a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. Her research focuses on the Zohar, kabbalistic myth, and the relationship between Jewish mysticism, emotion, and poetics. She is the author of Love of the Shekhina: Mysticism and Poetics in Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, an award-winning study of kabbalistic literature.

Rabbi Dr Zvi Leshem

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem is the former Director of the Gershom Scholem Collection for Research in Kabbala and Hasidism at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. He has held senior roles in Torah education and served as a community rabbi. His academic work focused on Jewish mysticism, with particular emphasis on the teachings of the Piaseczner Rebbe and Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Devori Nussbaum

Devori Nussbaum is an integrative psychotherapist trained in a wide range of healing modalities. Alongside her therapeutic work, she is passionate about teaching Chasidut in an accessible and embodied way, helping people experience these teachings not just as ideas but as a living description of reality. . Learn more at 40mystics.com/Devori-Nussbaum.