Havi­va Ner-David is a writer and rab­bi who lives in north­ern Israel on Kib­butz Han­na­ton, where she runs Shmaya: A Mikveh for Mind, Body and Soul and has a thriv­ing spir­i­tu­al com­pan­ion­ing prac­tice. She is the author of three mem­oirs — Life on the Fringes, Chanah’s Voice, and Dream­ing Against the Cur­rent – and two nov­els — Hope Val­ley and To Die in Secret. She is also the co-author of one pub­lished chil­dren’s book, Yon­ah and the Mikveh Fish, and anoth­er on the way to pub­li­ca­tion, Sabi Could­n’t Find His Car: a mod­ern Hanukkah mir­a­cle. Ner-David is an activist build­ing a shared soci­ety of part­ner­ship between Jew­ish and Pales­tin­ian Israelis in the Galilee. She par­ents, with her spouse Jacob, sev­en chil­dren, and lives with a degen­er­a­tive neu­ro­mus­cu­lar dis­ease that has been one of her great­est teachers.