Rabbi Amy Grossblatt Pessah

 is a rabbi, author, spiritual director and mom. Serving various communities and demographics across the country, Amy has been a Jewish educator for over thirty years with a specialization in Jewish Family Education. She received her MAJE from HUC-JIR and her semicha from Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Amy’s writings can be found online and in various anthologies; her first book, Parenting on a Prayer: Ancient Jewish Secrets for Raising Modern Children was published in 2020. Over the years, Amy has studied mindfulness, Jewish mysticism, and mussar, culminating in recording a CD with mussar-based chants, entitled, With a Full Heart. She is trained in Jewish energy healing, Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, and has completed 400 hours of chaplaincy hospice training.