Hannah Nathans
Hannah Nathans is an author and the rabbi of the Jewish Congregation Klal Israel|Open Jewish Congregation Klal] Israel in Delft.
Life
Nathans was born in 1944 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hannah is of Jewish Patrilineal descent.Nathans worked for the Dutch government as a policymaker, trainer, and consultant from 1970 to 1985. In 1989, after several years working as a senior consultant in a training and consulting firm, she started her own business, named Nathan's Consultancy. She was one of the first to introduce the Enneagram in the Netherlands and would later write a book on the subject.
In 2005, Nathans completed training as a Jewish Spiritual Director at Lev Shomea, Institute for Jewish Spiritual Direction. In 2007, Nathan's Consultancy became part of Rijnconsult, and Nathans founded HaMakor, Centre for Jewish Spirituality. Nathans earned a masters in Hebrew language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She studied to become a rabbi with Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, a neo-hasidic movement founded by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, where she received her Semikha in January 2014.
At the beginning of 2012, she worked as a rabbi in the congregation Beit ha’Chidush, affiliated with Liberal Judaism of UK.
In 2016, she became the rabbi of the Open Jewish Congregation Klal Israel in Delft, is a Reconstructionist community with an outreach orientation where those with Jewish ancestry or interest in Judaism are welcome.
Works
Adviseren als tweede beroep, resultaat bereiken als adviseur Werken met het Enneagram, naar persoonlijk meesterschap en sociale intelligentie Typisch ik, typisch jij; het enneagram, een handleiding bij mensen Een wortel die alsem en gal voortbrengt; het 20e eeuwse Chassidisme van Shalom Noach Berezovsky Werkboek Adviseren als tweede beroep- ''Can someone in the process of conversion serve as shali’ach tzibbur? in R.Daniel Siegel, Renewing ger toshav; opening the gates that more may enter to praise God''