Biography of Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi

Ohad Ezrahi is a leading Jewish Studies scholar and a co-director of the MINAD Institute for
for Esoterica and Jewish Renewal in Israel. His future vision is to establish Israeli a Kabalistic Retreat Center in the Israeli desert. The center which is already in the planning stages will be called HaMakom and will teach Esoterica while at the same time seeking to foster ecologically indigenous ways of living in the desert. The goal is to create somewhat of a merger between a Yeshiva and an Ashram with profound enviormental sensitivity.

His  research both academic and general  focuses on the inter-relationship between spiritual and environmental studies, with a spepcific emphasis on the feminine component in Jewish mysticism, specifically within  Lurianic Kabbalah.
  Ohad is a self-taught naturalist, an environmental and political activist, and a photographer, as well as a gifted teacher of Kabbalah. He originally studied Kabbalah at Sha'ar HaShamayim, one of the oldest kabalistic institutions in Jerusalem, and then went on to study philosophy, religions, Kabbala and literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
He has taught Hasidic mysticism and Kabbala in both academic and traditional settings, including the Hebrew University, OhrTorah College for Women, the Israeli College for Natural Medicine, the Jungian association for psychology and in numerous private study groups.

He writes a regular collum on Kabbala for "Alternative Living," a magazine on alternative thought medicine and esoterica.
  He is the author of "Two are the Cherubs" which seeks to unpack the erotic symbolism inherent in the structure and vessels of the Temple of Jerusalem, and to elucidate the implications of sacred eros in the mystical experience of the ancient Hebrews. The book has received numerous accolades from members of both the academic world, and Israeli philosophical circles.

Announcing the first retreat of HAMAKOM

Selected Publications

"Worlds of Doubt" (on certainty & uncertainty in Religious Experience) 1995 (English). "Bas Ayin" magazine, issue 11, Sep' 1996.

"Two are Cherubs" in The Old Will be Renewed and the New Will be Sanctified. Ohad Ezrahi and Y. Hayutman, Hay-Or Publishing, The Academy of Jerusalem, 1997. Summary of the article.

"Lilith, Women, the Full Circle" (on the repressed face of the feminine - in prep) co-authoring with Rabbi Mordechai Gafni.

The Feminist Mythos of the Jewish New Year

Hamakom-the "yeshivashram"