Rabbi Simon Jacobson

Rabbi YY Jacobson

Rabbi YY Jacobson is a prominent international speaker on Jewish philosophy and spirituality and the dean of TheYeshiva.net. He started his career transcribing the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe firsthand, served as editor-in-chief of the Algemeiner Journal and is well known for making Chassidic teachings relevant to contemporary life.

Oshra Koren

Rabbanit Oshra Koren is a Torah educator, community leader and one of Israel's most influential voices in women's Jewish learning. Founder of Matan HaSharon, she has spent decades making Torah aliveand accessible for women of every background.

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.