About Dawn Cherie and R. Ohad Ezrahi
Dawn Cherie has a background as a professional actress for years in NYC, being a main contributor to several performing groups, such as 'Mad Women of the Woods' and 'Body Temple', as well as being featured in numerous commercials and voice-overs. She is a ritualist specializing in women's arts, dance and freeing sexuality and the body. For ten years she had studied and practiced the Five Rhythms of Gabriel Roth, as well as other modes of dance since her feet started moving on this planet.
Dawn has
studied the path of love and sacred sexuality with David Deida, and had been an
active student of his for 7 years. Together with her husband (Ohad Ezrahi) Dawn has been teaching love,
relationship and sexuality as a sacred path called "KabaLove"
for over 4 years, in Israel, Europe and the U.S.A.
In the path of KabaLove Dawn works privately with women and
couples. Since she made Aliya nearly 3 years ago dawn has
been leading workshops at many of the festivals in Israel such
as Zorba, Shakti, Segol, Lev-Tahor and The Tantra
Convention.
In the Yeshiva world he had learned Talmud, Halacha, Midrash, Hasidism and Kabalah. He was sent by the Belzer Rebbe, who is one of the most important Orthodox andhasidic leaders to learn Lurianic Kabala in the traditional Kabalist-Yeshiva "SHa'ar Hashamayim" (= "The Gate of Heaven"). At that time he was already giving classes of Torah for several years within the yeshiva world. Later on he became a Rabbi and a teacher of Kabalah and Hasidism in the most progressive and advanced institutes of the modern orthodox movement in Israel. Ohad was a close student of the Kabalist Rabbi Yitshak Ginzburg, he had edited some of Ginzburgs' books and served as a senior teacher in his organization. Together with his fellow students he was part of the pioneer group that had established the community of Bat-Ayin in 89, where he had lived with his family for 12 years, making his living mainly from computer graphics and animation, while taking courses in the Hebrew University in Jewish Philosophy, Kabalah, literature, comparative religions and general philosophy.
At the end of the 90's he had "graduated from orthodoxy", and became one of the leading figures of the renewal movement in Israel. His books and articles had provoked a bit of turmoil in the Orthodox world (where he was known as a teacher) when he called for connecting with other wisdom traditions of the world on an equal basis, for the revival of the feminine and for recognizing the sacredness of Eros in ancient Jewish thought. In spring Ohad was invited to be a scholar in residence in the Rockefeller fellowship "Science, Gender and the Sacred" at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
In the fall of 2000 he opened HAMAKOM as a new spiritual community, that is dedicated to the renewal of spirit in Judaism. Hamakom had its first Yeshiva-Ashram in the Judean desert, where thousands of people from Israel and from all over the world came to study, spend time in a spiritual community and take workshops.
Ohad had written several books and hundreds of articles (Hebrew), addressing all kind of issues from a fresh Kabalistic point of view. His book about the redemption of Lilith (the dark side of the feminine) in Lurianic Kabala was said to be "A masterpiece! A classic!" by Rabbi Gershon Winkler (see here). Ohad developed also "The BresLove Cards" that are being used all over the world as a Hasidic-wisdom-based divination and inner work deck.
In 2005 Ohad decided to end the experiment of Hamakom and to open the School for Love in Kabala - Kabalove - with his wife - Dawn Cherie. This website is dedicated to this unique work.
רבי אוהד אזרחי: יליד 1965, אב לשלושה. הגיע אל החסידות בגיל 18, לאחר שאת מרבית נעוריו העביר במדבר, בלימוד אקולוגיה, בודהיזם ומדיטציה. למד במשך שנים בישיבות חסידיות חרדיות בירושלים מכל מקצועות התורה. למד בישיבת המקובלים "שער השמים". לימד במשך שנים מספר במוסדות תורניים רבים ובישיבות האוונגרד של הציבור הדתי-לאומי. נמנה על תלמידיו של המקובל רבי יצחק גינזבורג והיה ממקימי הישוב בת-עין בגוש-עציון. למד קבלה, מחשבת ישראל, פילוסופיה, ספרות ודתות באוניברסיטה העברית. לימד במסגרות עיוניות רבות, אקדמיות וחוץ אקדמיות. התפרנס שנים לא מעטות מגרפיקה ממוחשבת ואנימציה.
בסוף שנות התשעים הניח מאחור את העולם האורתודוקסי והקים את ארגון "המקום לחכמה והויה" ואת הישיבאשראם הראשון בעולם במצוקי דרגות שבמדבר יהודה, שם גר עד קיץ 2005. נמנה על מיסדי ומובילי זרם ההתחדשות הרוחנית ביהדות בארץ, והינו חבר ב"רבנים למען זכויות האדם" ובתנועה להתחדשות יהודית בארה"ב (Jewish Renewal). מזה שנים אוהד מלמד קבלה בדרכו בארץ, בארה"ב, קנדה, אירופה והודו. שתי סדרות של שיעוריו על תורת הקבלה של האהבה הופקו ושודרו ב"ערוץ החיים הטובים" בסדרה התחדשות. מזה שנים אוהד כותב מאמרים בירחון "חיים אחרים". פרסם מספר ספרים בהגות קבלית חדשה. בשנים האחרונות חולק את חייו עם בת זוגו - דואן שחר שרי. יחד הם מלמדים סדנאות בארץ ובעולם המוקדשות להבנת מערכות יחסים בין גברים ונשים, לתרגול של אהבה ולהכרה של מיניות מקודשתעל פי חכמת הקבלה. אוהד ודואן גרים כיום בתל-אביב ובראש פינה.