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Shefa Gold
American rabbi and musician
Shefa Gold (born April 8,1954)[1] is an American rabbi, scholar, and Director of the Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice (C-DEEP) in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. Gold is a teacher of chant, Jewish mysticism, Jewish prayer and spirituality who Rabbi Mike Comins described in 2010 as "a pioneer in the ecstatic practice of Jewish chant."[2] Her chants have been used in synagogues, minyanim, and street protests; perhaps her most well known being "Ozi V'zimrat Yah".[3][4][5] Combining traditional Jewish liturgical music with Hebrew chant, Gold has worked to cultivate a distinctly Jewish gratitude practice.[6] Her "Flavors of Gratefulness" mobile app has 130 different chants for Modeh Ani, the brief prayer traditionally recited by religious Jews upon awakening.[7] In 2024 she released "Flavors of Praise" with 72 different chants.
Prior to her rabbinical training, Gold worked as a musician. She said in a 2013 interview, "What I was really trying to do with my
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Rabbi Shefa Gold is a leader in ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal and received her ordination both from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z”l). She is the director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She teaches workshops and retreats on the theory and art of Chanting, Devotional Healing, Spiritual Community-Building and Meditation.
Rabbi Shefa composes and performs spiritual music, has produced ten albums, and her liturgies have been published in several new prayerbooks. She is the author of Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land and In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of The Song of Songs, both published by Ben Yehuda Press. Her latest book, published by Jewish Lights, is The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love.
By combining her grounding in Judaism with a background in Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Native American spiritual traditions, Rabbi Shefa is uniquely qualified as a spiritual bri
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This website focuses on the rabbinate of Rabbi Shefa Gold. Her main concentration is Hebrew chanting based on Jewish sacred texts (primarily, Torah and Tanach) and chant’s use for transformative spiritual growth. She does this work through writing, developing and leading chants, presenting workshops, leading SOULIFT, meditation retreats, pilgrimages to sacred sites, and serving as scholar-residence for communities and conferences world-wide. See the Schedule page for her current public commitments.
Through 2018, Rabbi Shefa taught the Kol Zimra Leadership Training program. A big part of her work is the deepening and ongoing advanced training of Kol Zimra alumni through retreats, personal coaching, on-line classes, and group healing work.
Chant is the bridge between the inner life and the outer expression; between the solitary practice and the shared beauty of fellowship. When we chant we are using the whole body as the instrument with which to feel the meaning of the sacred phrase.
— Rabbi Shefa Gold
You can read her biography and many of her writings on this site. Some
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