Rabbi Shir Meira Feit

Director of Studies

Rabbi Shir Meira Feit (they>he) is a musician, composer, ritual facilitator, and spiritual director. Shir has released several solo and collaborative albums of Jewish mystical music and has facilitated countless circles of communal ritual prayer and song, helping people of all backgrounds connect with their inner wisdom and joy.

Shir worked as a serial spiritual entrepreneur for over twenty years. They co-founded the Kol Zimrah independent minyan; was the Creative and Music Director for Romemu, New York City’s largest Renewal synagogue; served as Director of Engagement at ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal; and founded the Kol Hai: Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal spiritual community in New Paltz, New York. Today, Shir offers their teachings as an independent educator and musician and as a spiritual director, helping others to grow and flourish at the dynamic edge of spiritual emergence.

Shir received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and the ALEPH Ordination Program and is a former Wexner Graduate Fellow. Shir is also a member of the Zen Peacemakers and served as council facilitator and clergy for five years’ Bearing Witness Retreats in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In the last several years, Shir’s work and life have been heavily influenced by the spiritual practice of parenting, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic psychology, neuroqueer theory, artificial intelligence, and the wisdom of plant medicines. Shir lives with their partner and three children in the ancestral lands of the Esopus band of the Lenape Peoples, today known as New York’s Hudson Valley.