About Rav Jericho

A frequent guest lecturer at communities around the country, Rav Jericho is the founding rabbi of Temple of the Stranger, a burgeoning Brooklyn Ivri community. They serve as an advisor to Beit Kohenet and the Shalom Center. They are a Wexner Fellow, a member of B’not Esh and ROI: Schusterman Community, and a recent fellow at Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation. Their work has been recognized by The Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 and The Forward 50.

Jericho teaches the Ivri Path of mystical, embodied, living Torah. The Ivri Path reclaims religion as a gift of the ancestors—not a tool of patriarchal oppression. Rooted in the love of Goddess and the wisdom of Morah Miriam, composed of ancient esoteric Jewish wisdom, the Ivri Path is lush, healing, and just. Rav Jericho shares access to this path with any seeker ready to reclaim the power and the purpose that has always been theirs.

Raised in a rabbinic ultra-Orthodox family, Rav Jericho is a first generation college student. They earned their undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College night student, and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University as a Pforzheimer Fellow. They are ordained in the lineage of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi by the Aleph Ordination Program.

You can learn with Rav Jericho on their Substack, Survival Guide for a Spiritual Wilderness, on their limited series podcast, or on Instagram @thealef.

Rav Jericho is trans nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. They live in North Brooklyn on Lenape land with their partner, Dr. Ben Ash Blum, and their children.