Mimi Feigelson

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Mimi Feigelson
Born7 March 1963
U.S.
Education
OccupationRabbi
Websiteschechter.edu/staff/rabbi-dr-reb-mimi-feigelson/

Mimi Feigelson is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, scholar and spiritual leader.[1][2]

Born in the United States on March 7, 1963,[3] she moved to Israel at age eight and began studying with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach at age fifteen.[4] She says that in 1994, he granted her religious ordination (smicha), normally reserved for men.[1][5][6][7] Her ordination as well as that of Eveline Goodman-Thau was revealed in 2000 in an article by the New York Jewish Week.[8][9] Feigelson is also described as being ordained in 1994 by a panel of three rabbis after Carlebach's death.[10][8]

In 2001 she moved to Los Angeles to teach in the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at University of Judaism where she was the students’ mashpiah ruchanit, or spiritual guide.[9] She taught at the school until 2017, when she moved back to Israel to take a similar position at the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem.[11] In 2016 she earned her doctorate from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[11][3] She uses the title "Reb" rather than "Rabbi"[9] and is universally known as "Reb Mimi".[11]

Feigelson was among the few Orthodox women rabbis to have received private ordination in the Orthodox Jewish context before the institutional change that resulted in the founding of Yeshivat Maharat. Other women in her position include Haviva Ner-David and Dina Najman (both ordained in 2006).

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  1. ^ a b Wall, Alix (8 March 2002). "Outed as a rabbi, Orthodox woman to speak here". J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  2. ^ Horwitz, D. (2020). American Conservative Judaism and Kabbalah. In Kabbalah in America (pp. 254-265). Brill.
  3. ^ a b "Mimi Feigelson". The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  4. ^ Pinkus, Lisa. "Orthodox Women Rabbis". www.bellaonline.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014.
  5. ^ Fax, Julie G. (29 November 2001). "A Different Standard: Mimi Feigelson faces obstacles as an Orthodox female with smicha". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Scholar in Residence - Reb Mimi (Miriam Sara) Feigelson". Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  7. ^ Sperber, D. (2010). On women in rabbinic leadership positions. Me'orot, 8, 2.
  8. ^ a b Goodstein, Laurie (21 December 2000). "Ordained As Rabbis, Women Tell Secret". The New York Times.
  9. ^ a b c Cohen, Debra Nussbaum (26 June 2009). "A Woman With the Title 'Reb'". The Forward. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  10. ^ Israel-Cohen, Y. (2012). Chapter Five: Orthodox Women Rabbis?“It’s Only a Matter of Time”. In Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism (pp. 69-78). Brill.
  11. ^ a b c Fax, Julie Gruenbaum (17 September 2017). "In L.A., Reb Mimi found herself, her soul family and a way home". Jewish Journal.
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