Rabbi Naomi Mara Hyman is the Director of Education for Temple B'nai Israel in Easton, MD and the Director of Shiviti: A Gateway to Jewish Contemplative Practice. She holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies from Gratz College and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She also has certifications in Jewish Communal Studies and Para-chaplaincy.
Naomi has trained extensively in Jewish Meditation with both Rabbi David Cooper and Sylvia Boorstein and in contemporary midrash with Peter Pitzele (bibliodrama), Joanne Tucker (dance midrash) and Jo Milgrom (visual midrash). From 2000-2003 she served as rabbi for the Auschwitz/Birkenau Bearing Witness Retreat sponsored by the Zen Peacemaker Order.
The author of Biblical Women in the Midrash: A Sourcebook (Jason Aronson, Inc., 1997), Naomi is also the co-editor (with Rabbi Arthur Waskow and Ari Alon) of Trees, Earth and Torah: A Tu B'Shvat Anthology (Jewish Publication Society, 1999). Her poetry has been included in the anthologies Which Lillith? Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman (Jason Aronson, Inc, 1998) and Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, Volume 2 (Jewish Lights, 2000).
Naomi has completed her rabbinic studies under the supervision of Rabbi David Cooper; Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg, Ph.D.; Rabbi Miles Krassen, Ph.D.; and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D. Her studies have focused on Torah, Hasidut, and Jewish contemplative practice. She is currently working on a book on compassion in Jewish tradition.
