Keshira haLev Fife
priestess, celebrant, and community leader in Sydney, Australia
Keshira haLev Fife is a Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess), community shepherdess, ritual creatrix, life-long learner, liturgist, songstress, public speaker, writer, and world traveler who sprinkles sparkles, disrupts expectations, and offers blessings wherever she goes. As a community weaver, she is reclaiming ancient practices in ways that are resonant and relevant in the modern day.
She delights in reaching across oceans, generations, faiths and identities, inviting people to reflect, connect, and find their edges so that they can live more fully and know themselves more deeply. Whether guiding Kabbalat Shabbat or officiating lifespiral ceremonies, she curates with cultural sensitivity and leads with joyful human-ness, creating a sense of warmth and welcome. She broadens prayer experiences so that each being can show up as a participant, a witness, a seeker, or a skeptic, and be honoured as a pray-er, just as they are. As a ritual creatrix, she brings a sense of wholeness, fullness and blessing to each threshold, enhancing moments which are, at once, deeply personal and universal.
Having habitually offered 110%, in recent years, she has developed a newfound reverence for balance - between the profane and the sacred (Shabbat!), conviction and surrender, movement and stillness, and self-care and collective wholeness.
She earned her BS (Social History) and MS (Public Policy and Management) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has been living in Sydney, Australia with her beloved since 2005.
Finding a sense of home wherever she lays her head, she delights in crossing oceans and time zones, so that she can spend time with her loved ones, explore new places/cultures and re-awaken her senses of awe and remembering.