Rabbi Benjamin Goldenhersh
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Kehilat Bar-Lev, Mazkeret Batya, Israel
Rabbi Benjamin Goldenhersh is a spiritual leader at Congregation Kehilat Bar-Lev in Mazkeret Batya, Israel, and a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Program of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at Tel Aviv University. His research examines psychoanalysis as praxis, comparing the phenomenology of psychoanalytic and religious confessions. Rabbi Goldenhersh works as a Clinical and Supervising Psychologist at Israel’s largest Mental Health Center in Be’er Ya’akov, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, complex trauma, suicidal ideation, and other conditions using psychodynamic orientation. He serves as a mental health officer in the reserves of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Rabbi Goldenhersh is also a member of the Tzohar Rabbinical organization. He received his master’s degree and clinical training as a psychologist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2010. He completed his rabbinic studies at Yeshivat Hesder Yeruham and Yeshivat Har Etzion and was ordained in 2011.