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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 companionship practice. She is the author of two memoirs, Life on the Fringes and Chanah’s Voice. Hope Valley is her debut novel. Ner-David has seven children and lives with a degenerative neuromuscular disease that has been one of her greatest teachers.